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More famed, perhaps more fatal was Wolf Lamar's ability to impersonate over the telephone. Once he imitated Tammany's late Dan Riordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wolf Lamar | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...control in U. S. Distributing to western interests was a notable event. Although chairman of U. S. Distributing Corp. is George Fulmer Getz, Chicago tycoon and elephant owner, it has been always closely associated with New York business. Organizer of U. S. Trucking was the late Banker James J. Riordan. Chairman of the company in 1920-23 was Banker Riordan's great & good friend Alfred Emanuel Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Double-Deal | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...gold medal. He said he would travel to the U. S. in March to get it. Elected. Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime (1928) Democratic Candidate for President; to be Board Chairman of County Trust Co. (Manhattan), a post created following the suicide of his longtime friend James J. Riordan (TIME, Nov. 18) Elected. Vice President George Willard Smith of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.; to the company's presidency, left vacant by the death of Daniel Frederick Appel (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Suicides, long rumored, became facts, indicated some losers. Most prominent of suiciders was James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Co. (TIME, Nov. 18). In Manhattan, George E. Cutler, wholesale produce merchant, jumped to death. In Philadelphia, Frank S. Palfrey and W. Paul Brown, brokers, shot themselves. In Chicago, Herman L. Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Died. James J. Riordan, 48, president of County Trust Co. of New York, long-time friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith; by his own hand with his cashier's pistol; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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