Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major Berry began corralling mineral leases in the Tennessee Valley in 1932 with a Knoxville real-estate man named C. A. Harris as partner and W. H. Ford, a local promoter, as their agent. Ford continued to sign leases after President-elect Roosevelt first submitted his plan for a series of dams in the Tennessee Valley in substantially the form of the present TVA. Last of the 252 leases, each calling for a consideration of $1 and mostly providing for minimum royalties up to 25? an acre if mineral production was not begun within twelve months, was registered on March...
...first Stock Exchange houses to start investment counsel service in a big way but also was among the first to realize that such service should be divorced from the underwriting and commission business. And last week Chas. D. Barney & Co. had the distinction of having its senior partner, John W. Hanes, named as the first Stock Exchange member appointed to the SEC (see p. 53). Founder Barney, now 94 and long since retired, lives outside Philadelphia but two of his grandsons are in the firm, as is a great-grandson of Jay Cooke. It also has a partner named Fish...
...mighty underwriting house with a commission business sideline. With the divorce of underwriting from banking, the high-powered personnel of the Guaranty Co. (securities affiliate of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.) found itself out of a job, and after a little dickering moved into E. B. Smith. Senior partner of this bigger & better E. B. Smith was the old Guaranty Co. President, Joseph Rockwell Swan, to whom Senator Wheeler once remarked, in connection with Van Sweringen financing: "I do not doubt your good faith but I do doubt your judgment." The old firm had capital and the Guaranty...
Died. Lansing Parmelee Reed, 55, law partner of John W. Davis, Allen Wardwell and Frank L. Polk; of pneumonia; in his Manhattan apartment...
...Renaissance Florence the Antinori family were the leaders of the silk weavers guild. A present day Antinori is chic Princess Caetani (née Cora Antinori), who is also a granddaughter of Egisto P. Fabbri, partner of the first J. P. Morgan. It was not inappropriate, therefore, last week when Princess Caetani appeared at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel with Mrs. Harrison ("World's Best Dressed Woman") Williams in tow, to display unique yarns and fabrics developed in Italy by the great firm of Snia Viscosa and soon to be offered...