Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room to match the bar, the whole apartment to match the room. He made more ornate bars, got bigger decorating jobs. He puts all his profits back into the business, keeps 50 men busy in his Manhattan factory. Last February he opened a second Manhattan showroom in the St. Moritz Hotel. Next fortnight he will open a $50,000 display at the Traymore in Atlantic City. Mont bars run all the way from $80 to $8,000. His best customers: top grade speakeasies, underworld tycoons...
...special assistant to Secretary Hull; James Paul Warburg, able banking son of an able banking father; and Charles William Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., a minor member of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust'' during the cam- paign. James Warburg's father was the late Paul Moritz Warburg, member of the first Federal Reserve Board. James first saw light in Germany 36 years ago. A Harvard man, he served his banking apprenticeship in Boston, Washington, Manhattan, emerged as vice president of In- ternational Acceptance Bank, is today vice chairman of Bank of Manhattan Co. On Broadway...
...world's fastest natural ski course is a tamped snow swath without a jump down the nearly perpendicular face of a mountain near St. Moritz in Switzerland. For weeks men have curried and patted, dragged toboggans up & down, to make a flawless surface. Last week 16 ski racers stood at the top. At intervals along the course were men with bamboo poles to swish over the light snow between runs. The racers wore goggles, had no ski sticks because they knew they could not stand up against the terrific wind resistance. Their skis were 9 ft. long and heavy...
...theatres and taxicabs to Manhattan, where he serves as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee, was elected to the board of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, together with Lawyer Carl August de Gersdorff of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine 8 Wood. They succeeded Bernard Mannes Baruch and the late Paul Moritz Warburg...
Head of the great Manhattan Co., possessing a fortune of at least $50,000,000, perhaps more than $100,000,000, it was natural that the late Paul Moritz Warburg was skilled in the art of handling money. When last week his will was filed it was found to contain rigid rules. In these lay the foundation for his investment policy, but only the foundation. For no rules can tell when to buy or sell. Absolute discretion in that was given to his four executors (widow, daughter, son, brother...