Word: weinberger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum. Brother Arthur retired last year to the life he preferred in France. Dignified, cultured Walter Sachs, a Harvard classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt has only one family partner, Howard Sachs, a son of Founder Sachs's Brother Harry. The others are Henry Bowers, Ernest Loveman, and Sidney Weinberg, who is the most active partner today...
Sitting on the boards of 31 corporations, restless little Sidney Weinberg started in Goldman Sachs as a porter in 1907 after a short Manhattan career as a newsboy and Western Union messenger. It was years before the partners even knew him by name. By his own account he got ahead by being "such a fresh kid." During the War he was cook on a submarine chaser, until yanked into the Navy's Intelligence Department. Brilliant, blunt, energetic, he takes vast interest in the affairs of any company in which he is a director. Occasionally at board meetings he pulls...
...Sidney Weinberg's ability as a director belongs most of the credit for preserving Goldman Sachs's invaluable corporate connections, not the least of which was Sears, Roebuck. When financing revived, corporations turned to Goldman Sachs as they had done before Depression. Last Spring National Dairy Products came in for a $62,000,000 refunding deal...
...slice. Only one private car was needed to carry the Washington delegation, which included Senator James J. Davis, U. S. Treasurer William A. Julian, Joseph Tumulty, George Creel, White House Secretary Stephen T. ("Steve") Early. At the reception they mingled with Bernard Baruch, Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Publisher Ogden Reid, Mrs. Billie Burke Ziegfeld...
...Swanson who, as usual, was ailing. Harry Hopkins and Rexford Tugwell went along for the sake of goodwill, as did George Peek, Frank Walker, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Charles Michelson, top men from many a board & bureau. The list also included John D. Reilly, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., Sidney Weinberg of the Business Advisory Council, Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss of Nebraska, and a fine delegation from Congress, including Col. Edward Halsey, pompous but popular secretary of the Senate, and Senators Tydings, Dieterich, Walsh, Barkley, Radcliffe, Copeland, Duffy, Gerry. The only political outsider present...