Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with 80% convictions. He was in charge of the District Attorney's office in 1923 when Anna Marie ("Dot King") Keenan, Broadway "sweetie," was murdered. For days he withheld from the Press the name of John Kearsley Mitchell, "Dot King's" benefactor, son-in-law of Morgan Partner Edward Townsend Stotes-bury, to save Mitchells family from "needless humiliation and suffering...
Twenty years ago another Manhattan lawyer faced another Morgan at another Congressional show not unlike last week's. Then it was Samuel Untermyer (75 last week) v. John Pierpont Morgan Sr. Minnesota's Representative Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose son later married the daughter of a Morgan partner, had called for an inquiry into the "Money Trust." Chairman Arsene Pujo of the House Banking & Currency Committee set the stage. The first day the elder Morgan spent 17 minutes on the witness stand and was so upset by Inquisitor Untermyer that he could not name his ten partners. The second...
...Pecora did a much better job of establishing substantial information about private banking on which to base legislation. With time to search and prepare, he never dropped a question until he got his answer. Yet it was not Banker Morgan who supplied him with most of his facts but Partner George Whitney, tall, handsome, slick-haired brother of President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Whitney (known on Wall Street as "Icicle") gave the committee the impression that he knew more about the House of Morgan than anyone else...
...admission of S. Parker Gilbert to partnership as a means of establishing a $21,000,000 loss to avoid paying income taxes in 1931, 1932 and 1933? A. For 20 years the firm has always taken profits or losses by sales of assets every time a new partner was admitted or old partners retired; actually the firm had other losses in 1931 and 1932 so that no taxes would have been paid even without establishment of the $21,000,000 loss.∙ Q. Has not the firm used the capital gains and losses section as a means of avoiding taxes...
...Government and other marketable securities" had declined $28,000,000 in book value (TIME, May 8). At the same time, Frank Altschul, chairman of the Stock Exchange List Committee, made public a year-long file of correspondence between his body and Allied Chemical. Mr. Altschul, Lazard Freres partner and brother-in-law to New York's Governor Lehman, had politely and persistently asked for a complete statement of the company's financial setup. Just as persistently and politely the company-that is, Mr. Weber-had refused. The only benefit from such a move, suave Mr. Weber insisted, would...