Word: sprecher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admittedly, while The Turncoats is an entertaining play, it is entertaining in a conventional way. As directed by Paul Sprecher, with its sparse setting and straight-forward presentation, this is the stuff of which good TV drama is made. America has treated these men badly--all had been poor, suffering the resulting humiliations. Kondry, as an example, had been through a reform school, labelled "Reformed," and thrown back into society only to find he couldn't get a job. China, for them, offers material promise, but not the emotional comfort the men need. The dilemma is captured in a former...
...keeping with the Deutsche Bank's retirement age of 65, Abs has just stepped up to the elder-statesman role of chairman of its supervisory board. To succeed him as Sprecher des Vorstandes, or speaker for its ten-man executive board, the Frankfurt-based bank picked not one but two associates: Karl Klasen, 58, head of its Hamburg office, and Franz Heinrich Ulrich, 56, who will also continue to manage its Dusseldorf division. Though withdrawing from active banking, Abs remains one of his country's most powerful businessmen. A director of 29 large companies, he retains the chairmanship...
...became Sprecher of the Deutsche Bank, which had been broken up by the Allies at war's end, when it was re-established in 1957. By expanding the bank's services to small depositors, venturing into personal loans, setting up mutual funds, he soon made the bank more prosperous than ever. With assets more than doubled in a decade, to $4.5 billion, its earnings last year reached $40 million...