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...little office on North Clark Street in Chicago, two men met to talk business. The deal: how to muscle into the thriving Chicago Restaurant Association and take control of it. Said James Weinberg to Paul ("Needle Nose") Labriola: "We'll have to kill Teitelbaum, but we don't want a big uproar in the papers. We'll push him out of his office window. He's in income-tax trouble, and everybody will think it was suicide...
...Coast's biggest financial houses. As top manager, Blyth picked its Vice President Lee Limbert, 58, who has supervised the raising of billions in cash for such giants as Pacific Gas & Electric and Bank of America. Other co-managers: ¶Goldman, Sachs & Co., headed by Investment Banker Sidney Weinberg, 64, who knows Washington (where he has served for 22 years in half a dozen big jobs) as well as he knows Wall Street, and who has had a guiding hand in Keith Funston's career...
...setting up a sales incentive plan for American Radiator, where he learned "not to talk unless you know what you are talking about." In 1940 Sylvania hired him away as sales-planning director; a year and four months later he was in Washington helping Banker Sidney Weinberg set up the Industry Advisory committees of the War Production Board, became Weinberg's protégé, and later an assistant to War Production Board Chief Donald Nelson. Everywhere he went, Funston's personality magically opened doors. Said a colleague: "He never battered them down. Doors opened...
...cool to his businesslike, public-relations approach, those outside the college were not. Within four years, Funston joined the boards of directors of seven companies: General Foods, B. F. Goodrich, Connecticut General Life Insurance, Owen-Corning Fiberglas, Hartford Steam Boiler, Aetna Insurance, First National Bank. On each, Funston, as Weinberg says, "was a good director-independent and willing to do the homework...
...1930s, then returned home hurriedly from Liechtenstein just two jumps ahead of Hitler, was keeping his own counsel. One of the departing directors, demanding anonymity, told reporters: "We figured we'd get out while the getting was good." Only Wall Street Investor (Goldman, Sachs) Sidney J. Weinberg, 63, a dollar-a-year man in Washington during World War II, spoke out. Norris and his friends, he said, had arbitrarily cut down the size of the Garden's executive committee from eight to three, making it clear that he wants a free hand in operations. "When...