Word: mr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nebraska's private utility systems outright, finance the purchase by a bond issue of about $90,000,000. Banker Myers tied up with young Paul H. Nitze, a former officer of Dillon, Read & Co., arranged a nationwide syndicate to market the bonds. The first Nebraska utility man Mr. Myers interviewed practically threw him out. But back in Wall Street the holding-company financiers who run utilitydom were seeing the handwriting on the wall in Wendell Willkie's losing fight against big TVA. A few judicious telephone calls soon smoothed Mr. Myers' path...
...deal. After a split with Partner Nitze, and expenses, he expected to net between $70,000 and $80,000. On this basis his commission on the entire $90,000,000 purchase would be $2,250,000-which would mean a tidy net for Mr. Myers, even after deducting expenses, taxes and Mr. Nitze...
When a curious Commissioner asked Mr. Myers how the compromise valuation figure was arrived at, Mr. Myers replied: ". . . by general discussion. . . . These are the tricks of the trade, and I get paid for them. I'm not going to educate...
...three weeks officers and directors of the swindled drug firm had been telling New York's Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall that they had no reason to suspect the late F. (for Philip) Donald (for Musica) Coster. Not so, said Mr. Catchings...
...said, Director Wilbur L. Cummings told him he thought McKesson & Robbins was being badly managed, asked him to look into it. Mr. Catchings was told by President Coster that the wholesale drug departments, which did the bulk of the company's business, had got their assets frozen. Coster proposed a stockholders' equity receivership to get rid of the wholesalers, but Mr. Catchings talked him out of that. Instead, Coster persuaded the directors to hire Mr. Catchings at $5,000 a month as chairman of an operations committee, with the understanding that he was to have nothing...