Word: said
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial brains, the bank has one great advantage over almost all others. Through its long history, it established, financed or otherwise contributed to the success of dozens of U.S. corporate giants. Having benefited from the financial brains of the bank, many a corporation would think of going nowhere else. Said one loyal customer: "Memories are long in the banking world...
...sent to explain a legal problem to the younger J. P. Morgan. After he left, Morgan said: "I like that young man." Alexander's law firm assigned him to work as counsel for Morgan in the congressional investigations, and he became Morgan's chief counsel at the Nye munitions hearing, stayed by his side through his entire testimony. On Christmas Eve in 1938, Morgan summoned Alexander to his Wall Street office and invited him into partnership. After agonizing for more than a month about leaving the active practice of law, Alexander became a Morgan partner...
Thomas Alva Edison's pet hates were "small-brained" capitalists and "bulge-head" professors. He disliked capitalists because they never put enough money into his proliferating inventions, and professors because they ridiculed his nearly total ignorance of algebra. Said Edison: "I can hire mathematicians at $15 a week, but they can't hire...
...view to transmitting atomic information to Russia. Later, Oppenheimer dubbed this testimony "a cock-and-bull story." His revised version: Chevalier was approached by a mutual friend and Soviet sympathizer, reported the matter to Oppenheimer, and both men agreed that the suggestion was treasonable (this exchange, Chevalier later said, took place in the pantry of Oppenheimer's house while the scientist was mixing martinis). To this day there is no conclusive evidence as to which of the two versions is correct, but Chevalier (who has lived in France since 1950) insists on the truth of the second, or pantry...
...empirical style was deeply shared by his associates. The flavor of the man and his time was caught by George Bernard Shaw, who worked briefly for an Edison company in London in 1879 and whose novel, The Irrational Knot, had an Edisonian hero. Edison's American employees, said Shaw, were "free-souled creatures, excellent company; sensitive, cheerful and profane; liars, braggarts and hustlers." Every one of them, Shaw noted, "adored Mr. Edison as the greatest man of all time in every possible department of science, art and philosophy...