Word: seligmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unlisted in Who's Who is the Seligman Chief, Brother Frederick Strauss, who last month was elected to two of the most coveted U S. directorates, Radio Corp., Electric Bond & Share...
...went down one evening last week, Prime Minister Venizelos entered the Chamber of Deputies and began a fiery speech which lasted well into the night. He moved adoption of a bill entrusting to J. & W. Seligman & Co. of Manhattan the financing of a notable series of public works in the Salonika Valley. Pointedly defying Hambros, Venizelos cried...
...Seligman Trust. Thus the specialty Investment Trust, actual and rumored. Last month saw also the formation of a general Investment Trust, a smaller, more compact example of the species. This was the Tri-Continental Corp. sponsored by the house of J. & W. Seligman, famed international bankers. It is capitalized at $50,000,000, has no specific field of interest. It has offered 1,000,000 shares of no par common stock at $27; a $25,000,000 issue of 6%, cumulative preferred stock with warrants...
...Seligman family is one of four Manhattan Jewish families (along with the Schiffs, the Lewisohns, the Warburgs) particularly famed for philanthropic as well as for financial activities. The house was founded in 1848 by Joseph Seligman, U. S. immigrant from Bavaria in 1835. Becoming wealthy as merchant and importer, Joseph Seligman entered the banking business, sent for his seven brothers. Since then there have always been several Seligmans in the Seligman House. Present representatives of the family in the firm are Henry, Jefferson and Walter Seligman. Perhaps the most distinguished in the firm is shy, quiet, poetry-loving Frederick Strauss...
...banking, likening the U. S. banking system to European banking during the Renaissance. Seeing no chance of publishing a critical essay written by a stranger, an alien, he put his paper in a desk-drawer, where it remained for four years. But in 1907, on the advice of Professor Seligman of Columbia University, he brought the article up to date, sent it to the New York Times, saw it in print. Soon the Panic of 1907 vividly demonstrated the justice of his criticisms, won him recognition as a financial authority. In 1908 he went with the late great Henry...