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...turkey to the men at the arsenal. The probability of a long war demanded that he be a shrewd enough man to retain his popularity without sacrificing his ends. And so, with mutual felicitations as to God, the Hammer & the Sickle, Maxim Litvinoff, whose name at birth was Max Wallach, set out for Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia At War: DIPLOMATIC FRONT: Mr. Wallach Goes to Washington | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...held securities valued at $84,000 and who, feeling queasy about ever recovering in Holland, attached what ever assets in the U. S. they could discover (these two claimants happen to be famed German-born, British-naturalized stage and movie horror-star Conrad Veidt and German refugee-banker Eduard Wallach); 4) John Doe and Richard Roe, unknowns representing a London Dutch-Commission-in-Exile, set up by Wilhelmina to deal with expropriation problems; 5) John Poe and Jane Poe, phony names representing any other Bankierskantoor customers who might conceivably bring future claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Chase Wants to Know | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Always close to its retailers, Hart Schaffner & Marx often helps them out with advances, sometimes has to take over a store to protect its involuntary investment. Occasionally it buys out a retailer who is going out of business, to preserve a good outlet. Wallach's with nine stores in and around Manhattan is now a Hart Schaffner & Marx subsidiary, having been bought after the original owners announced that they intended to close. Useful as retail laboratories, the stores last year contributed about one-half of total profits ($484,405). During Depression the Hart Schaffner & Marx volume dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hart, Schaffner, Marx & Hillman | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Sweet Mystery of Life (by Richard Maibaum. Michael Wallach & George Haight; Herman Shumlin, producer). Written with one eye on Broadway's hilarious Three Men on a Horse and the other on Hollywood, this farce exhibits the psychological rejuvenation of a grouchy department store tycoon (Gene Lockhart) who fancies himself ready to die. Three scheming vice presidents plan to insure his life, then talk him into his grave. Hastily summoned is a moony ager.t (Hobart Cavanaugh) of Good Life Insurance Co. who observes that "Life Insurance is Immortality." finds himself the dazed recipient of commissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...After 17 years of faithful clerking, Samson Wallach was made cashier of the Stock Exchange firm of Halle & Stieglitz. A dignified man with greying hair, he served eight years in that capacity. Last week he was arrested for defalcation of $329,000. No stockmarket plunger, he had invested in New York City real estate and pleasant living. On a salary cut from $11,000 to $5,400 he paid $3,000 rent for a big house on Long Island, kept two automobiles, two servants. Declared Samson Wallach: "I have never gambled outside of playing the real estate market. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Downtown | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

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