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General American Investors, jointly managed by the Manhattan banking houses of Lehman Brothers and Lazard Freres, showed a decline of only 1% in net asset value in the last six years against the average trust record of 33%. General American is one of the few big trusts that has called the stockmarket's major turns with any real success...
Married, Mrs. Mary Ann Payne Clews, 35, relict of Manhattan Banker James Blanchard Clews; and George Blumenthal, 77, retired Manhattan banker (Lazard Freres) and philanthropist; president of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mount Sinai Hospital and of the American Hospital in Paris; in Manhattan...
...Louisiana's Longsters, depressed since their leader's assassination, life once more seemed good last week. In New Orleans' Federal District Court a jury had just pronounced the late Senator's crony. Abraham Lazard Shushan, not guilty of dodging Federal income taxes (TIME, Oct. 21). Happy "Abe" Shushan, who, a few hours before, had been sobbing brokenly as his attorney pleaded for his wife & children, glimpsed three news photographers snapping their cameras...
...indictment last year of eight Long followers for income tax evasion. Last spring the Government warmed up with State Representative Joe Fisher, a petty henchman, put him in the penitentiary for 18 months. Last week it went to the mat with its first big-time Longster when Abraham Lazard Shushan was brought to trial in New Orleans on a charge of evading Federal taxes on $448,000 of a 1929-33 income...
...Abraham Lazard Shushan was also the Senator's true-blue friend. It was he who rushed from the death bed with the first news of his chief's passing: "Huey's dead. It's terrible!" But Colonel Shushan, drygoods merchant, president of the New Orleans Levee Board and builder of one of the biggest, most expensive ($4,000,000) and most useless airports in the world for his personal glorification, was not destined to figure largely in the Long inheritance. Like Oscar Allen, his chief service to the Kingfish...