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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pink coats and popinjays were not really his dish. Never really happy unless he is closing-or opening-a deal, he kept a finger in the financial pot. He made friends with the great London bankers, J. Henry Schroder & Co. and Alfred Loewenstein, the hard-headed Belgian who came up from nothing to be rated as third richest man in the world, controlling a worldwide utility empire. And V.E. played the stockmarket. By 1928, when he had just turned 30, he was worth some $40,000,000-on paper. But it was not enough. It just whetted his appetite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Everything, Inc. | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...Grand Slam. With Loewenstein, Emanuel planned a grandiose scheme to take over just about all the utilities in the U.S. Before the plan went into effect, Loewenstein mysteriously jumped or fell from a plane over the English Channel (V.E. is sure he fell). But Emanuel, backed by the Schroders, who had been Loewenstein's bankers, and A. C. Allyn, among others, went ahead anyway. They fixed their sights on the multi-millioned Standard Gas & Electric System. Altogether, they ante'd up about $60,000,000 and formed the U.S. Electric Power Corp., a holding company with Emanuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Everything, Inc. | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...National Electric Power Co. in 1923, spread it farther & wider through the Middle West, sold out to Insull in 1926. In 1929 he returned to the power business by buying into the Byllesby system's Standard Power & Light. An associate in this foray was famed International Banker Albert Loewenstein, who (Emanuel intimated before the TNEC last month) was readying a plan to grab control of a large cut of the U. S. public utility industry when he dropped out of a transport plane into the English Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLDING COMPANIES: Bankers' Banyan | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Victor Emanuel met Loewenstein in England, where he has spent many a season steeplechasing and riding to hounds. (He was once Master of the Woodland Pytchley hounds.) Between times he has thinned his hair, widened his girth by syndicate operations in a swivel chair. Still president of Standard Power & Light, he entered what he calls "the Aviation Corp. situation" in 1937. Last fall he strengthened his hold by a typical maneuver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLDING COMPANIES: Bankers' Banyan | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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