Word: moneyman
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...father was Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed moneyman, who virtually ran France. At 19, Germaine was married off to Sweden's Baron Eric Magnus de Staël-Holstein in a deal of unromantic grandeur under which 1) France gave Sweden the West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador...
...first-nighters recognized him, but the rumpled character caught in the crush at last week's opening of Walter and Jean Kerr's musicomedy Goldilocks (see THEATER) had one of the most important parts in the show: he was the moneyman. Roger Lacey Stevens, 48, a balding, burly real estate operator who did not become a playgoer until he passed 30, today is the busiest producer on Broadway. He handles the purse strings for 1) the Producers' Theater, a group he formed with Producer Robert Whitehead; 2) the famed Playwrights' Company; 3) ANTA (American National Theater...
...Goldilocks notices were lukewarm, but Moneyman Stevens was not bothered, for he is a hardened hand at flops. In eight years, out of $4,000,000 worth of plays, he has had some 20 hits, 30 misses. This fall he is already responsible for two flops: Howie and A Handful of Fire. But balancing them, his Producers' Theater has brought in Eugene O'Neill's ponderous success, A Touch of the Poet. And other Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume...
...Andrés Gomiz, former director of the nationalized Argentine oil industry. But it was two others who were most remembered back in Argentina. One was boyishly handsome Guillermo Patricio Kelly, top bullyboy of Perón's street-fighting Alianza greyshirts. The other was Jorge Antonio, biggest moneyman of Perón's regime...
Sound Money. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. was one of the city's biggest when Chase was founded in a one-room Broadway office in 1877 by John Thompson, a Wall Streeter with such an abiding admiration for Sound-Moneyman Salmon P. Chase. Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, that he named the bank for him. While the Manhattan Co.'s bank grew slowly, Chase grew rapidly. It took over so many other banks that it once had 84 directors...