Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought he would outgrow it, gave the boy a newspaper training, and suddenly installed him at 21 as editor-in-chief of the Scripps papers. In 1922, E. W. Scripps picked a selfmade Hoosier, Roy Wilson Howard, then chairman of United Press, gave him to Son Robert as a partner...
...Lines. John Daniel Hertz has bagged enough businesses in his 58 years to be an ace at U. S. finance. A Chicago reporter, he founded Yellow Cab Co. in 1915, sold most of it to General Motors Corp. ten years later for $43,000,000. Currently he is a partner of Lehman Bros., potent Wall Street investment house which controls Transcontinental & Western Air. For several months Aces Hertz and Rickenbacker have been engaged in an air duel which was small stuff for Ace Hertz but big for Ace Rickenbacker. Last week it became apparent that "Eddie" Rickenbacker...
...brokers could not believe their ears. Indeed, as the report shot through Wall Street it was not believed until the Stock Exchange issued a public statement. For Richard Whitney was the Depression president of the Stock Exchange, is a brother of Morgan Partner George Whitney. Richard Whitney & Co. had always been known as "the Morgan brokers." It was in behalf of a Morgan banking group that Richard Whitney strode across the floor to U. S. Steel post on a dark day in 1929 to bid $2.05 per share for 25,000 shares of steel -15 points above the market. That...
Died. Seymour Parker Gilbert, 45, youthful prodigy of U. S. business, one-time (1924-30) Agent General for Reparations Payments in Germany, since 1931 a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.; of heart disease; in Manhattan. As a young U. S. Treasury assistant to Secretaries McAdoo, Glass, Houston, Mellon, he often worked until nearly dawn, then showed up on time for morning work. As a young Reparations agent he harvested from Germany, distributed to the Allies, $26,000,000,000 in cash and chattels...
Claflin was a former partner of the Boston investment firm of Tucker, Anthony, & Co. and was president of the Boston Stock Exchange from 1935-6. Graduated from the Law School in 1904, Shattuck had been a lawyer and legislator in Boston for many years and is now a member of the Boston City Council from Ward...