Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...securities of any kind . . . participate in syndicates and underwritings . . . exercise such other of its charter powers as its Board of Directors may from time to time determine." The Board thus broadly trusted contained great names, One was Goldman Sachs & Co., potent financiers. Another was Harrison Williams, potent utility man. After the House of Morgan has taken its bow as First in Finance, it is questionable whether any other banking house, from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams, if all the utilities in which he is interested should suddenly be demolished...
Tall, calm, quiet Waddill Catchings, president of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., is widely recognized as a Coming Man of Wall Street. He graduated from Harvard (1901), took a law degree (1904), entered business in 1911 with the Central Foundry Co. From 1915 to 1917 he was a Morgan Man (export division), then spent a year as president of Schloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. on the Executive Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever...
Williams. It has been remarked that Harrison Williams has more utility knowledge in his little finger than any other utility man has in his entire anatomy. Exaggerated is this statement, yet not unfounded. Mr. Williams' Central States Electric Corp. is a holding company which owns more than 810,000 shares of North American Co., which, through subsidiaries, furnishes light and power in Cleveland, St. Louis, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Washington, and more than 900 other U. S. communities. Central States was prominent in the formation of American Cities Power and Light and of Electric Shareholdings Corp. It has large holdings...
Harry Richman, Manhattan night club man, explained how he became engaged to Clara Bow, cinema "It" girl (TIME, July 22). Said he: "I got tough with her. Instead of saying yes I said what I pleased and won the greatest little girl that ever lived." Next day Cinemactress Bow snapped: "When I need a boss, I'll put an advertisement in the paper." She said she was not at all sure about the engagement...
Married. Mrs. Lotta Rupp (Cinemactress Lottie Pickford); to one Russell O. Gillard, Los Angeles undertaker; in Hollywood. It was Mrs. Rupp's third marriage. After her first divorce (1920) she proclaimed she would not marry again "even if the man had golden wings and a diamond halo...