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When Joe Kennedy wrote his epitaph of Paramount, many a Wall Streeter figured he was dead right. Paramount had just stumbled out of bankruptcy without appearing to shed any of the overgrown ineptitude that had put it in there. Adolph Zukor put Paramount together in 1912. Its roots were in the days when nickelodeons were gold mines and Mary Pickford made her first $20,000 a year. An expansionist of such resolution that the trade began calling him a monopolist, Zukor bought stars and studios until Paramount and Hollywood were synonymous...
Meanwhile wealthy Wall Streeter Stanton Griffis, partner of Hemphill, Noyes & Co., had bought enough stock to become chairman of the Executive Committee. By 1937 Paramount had paid up all arrears on its first preferred stock, chopped the second preferred arrearages in half...
...Toledoans got sore. In the Hotel Secor ballroom last week they formed a solid labor-capital phalanx. Chunky, aggressive Charles E. Swartzbaugh (electrical appliances) was there with representatives of 88 other Toledo firms. Kenneth Cole of C.I.O., John M. Froehlich of A.F. of L., Earl Streeter of the Mechanics' Educational Society were there...
...materials branch went Wall Streeter Arthur H. Bunker, vice president and executive-committee chairman of Lehman Corp., an expert in oil, investment trusts, British investments...
Report from Britain While the President was still in bed last week, there was one important bearer of tidings whom he received: James Forrestal, 49, Under Secretary of the Navy, amiably cynical ex-Wall Streeter, who had just returned to Washington after two and a half weeks in Britain. Forrestal was the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit wartime Britain since Sumner Welles's ill-fated exploratory peace trip in 1940-for unofficial Ambassadors Willkie and Hopkins, and innumerable minor observers, have had no such formal posts. What the Under Secretary reported was not officially disclosed, but Washington...