Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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with Gentry (3) 6-The Bankers, Mayer (6) 7-Total Woman, Morgan CIO,) 8-Conversations with Kennedy...
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...well timed. In the past 18 months, three major U.S. banks have collapsed. The "watch list" kept by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency on banks in need of special surveillance has later reached an alltime high of 150. The general reader, too, judging by the success of Martin Mayer's recent expose of banking (TIME, Jan. 20) is beginning to wonder if going systematically into debt is as prudential as it was once thought...
...clear what could be sold to the public, if anything. Old tyrants retired, sank and died; every year some old lion still in power was being proclaimed the last tycoon. Television killed the first set of old men, angry stockholders and ravenous conglomerates killed the second. Louis B. Mayer, the feared stable master of the great M-G-M dynasty, went under in 1951; Darryl F. Zanuck, truncheoning all comers, held out twenty years longer, finally going under with the Japanese planes in his $25,000,000 Tora, Tora, Tora! They were monarchs, intuitive monarchs. But they were...