Word: moneymen
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...situation looked promising to a minor-league mogul and ex-marine named Bill Veeck (rhymes with wreck). He rounded up nine moneymen, including Comedian Bob Hope. Last week they bought the Indians for about...
...Studios in Joinville, a suburb of Paris, dozens of nail-straighteners were hard at work last week. With new nails scarce or unobtainable, their labors were needed to make scenery for a movie to be called L'Assassin Chantait. In Paris offices, French cinemagnates and U.S. and British moneymen were equally busy making deals and filling the French movie world with rumors of great things to come...
...Angeles, city, county and state officials were squabbling over who would do the renting of the huge 105,000-seat Coliseum. Waiting for a break in the clouds were Payne's movietown moneymen, Frank Sinatra and Harry James; Meehan's onetime Syracuse classmate, Cinema Producer Harry Joe Brown; and Ward's watchers, Christy Walsh and Don Ameche...
Screams & Growls. Gleefully, the Argentine press reprinted this reaction as proof that Britain and the U.S. would not unite to put economic pressure on Argentina. Washington, still confident that Britain would cooperate if called upon, dismissed the London press comments as merely the screams of British moneymen fearful for their Argentine investments. Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius quoted last week's speech by Winston Churchill, "Argentina . . . has chosen to dally with evil, and not only with evil but with the losing side...
...overlooked one fact. It is mainly through this same policy that Brazil is able to resume interest payments at all. Because of Lend-Lease, and the resulting purchase by the U.S. of vast stores of raw materials, Brazil's pocketbook is the fattest in years. As many U.S. moneymen pointed out, the plan is better than any which Britain has thus far secured. No matter what its drawbacks, the plan promises to put interest payments to U.S. and British bondholders, even if reduced, on a reasonably permanent basis...