Word: utilitycoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less than a month later Arkansas Public Utilitycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, second largest stockholder in Kansas City Southern (largest: Amsterdam Trust Office, The Netherlands), became its president. Between expanding his inland public-utility empire and working for the New Deal as director of RFC (1932-34), Ozarker Couch had also obtained control of Louisiana & Arkansas. Of that road his younger brother (by 13 years) Charles Peter Couch has been president since Harvey gave...
...Midwest and Southern utility holding companies, dissolved them and put their eleven big operating companies under a new holding company giant: Commonwealth & Southern, with operating units in eleven States from Michigan to Alabama. To Manhattan he summoned Wendell Willkie to be C. & S.'s attorney. When old-line Utilitycoon Cobb retired in 1933, he made Willkie president...
...Elected to the presidency of Kansas City Southern Railway was Arkansas Public Utilitycoon Harvey Crowley Couch. The road's second largest stockholder, Ozarker Couch succeeds C. E. Johnston, now president of the Western Association of Railway Executives...
Died. David Lamar, circa 70, "Wolf of Wall Street." tipster, swindler, speculator, jailbird; of heart disease; in an unpretentious Manhattan hotel; age, origin and real name unknown. He appeared in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, fell in with an aged utilitycoon who soon lost five-sixths of a $6,000,000 fortune, soon blossomed out as a bigtime stock manipulator with a taste for hot birds, cold bottles, fast horses and the flashiest Broadway cabarets. So notorious were his corporate nuisance suits that J. P. Morgan the Elder denounced him as "vermin...