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Last week for the third time in a seven-year rise to riches, Charles Willard Young founded a Manhattan investment counsel firm. His first was Young & Ottley, launched in 1929 with the financial aid of a fellow Yaleman named James Henry Ottley. Young & Ottley promptly established itself by calling the stock-market crash. In 1933 young Mr. Young pulled out of Young & Ottley, moved from Manhattan's Chanin Building diagonally across 42nd Street to the Chrysler Building. There with new backers, notably James Cox Brady, Mr. Young set up an-other investment counsel firm called C. W. Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Counselor's Third Stand | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...Saxon of Yale was a democrat until 1933. Harvard he studies under Dr. Felix Frankfurter and main inspiration of the Democratic "brain trust" Yaleman Saxon's committee of nine assistants analyzing the New Deal "to expose its fallacies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another "Trust" | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

...Before 150 undergraduates in the courtyard of Yale's Pierson College appeared a small, mild-faced Negro. .No Yaleman but a collectivist who was sentenced to a Georgia chain gang three years ago for possessing radical literature and is now out on bail, Communist Angelo Herndon gravely announced: "We love our country so much that we are not willing to see her plunge into another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Peace Day | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Politics is a slower game than Monopoly, requires more skill. It was invented by Oswald ("Oz") Lord, a tall, gangling Manhattan Yaleman (Class of 1926) who holds down a good desk in the family textile firm of Galey & Lord. One of nine children, Oz Lord says he thought of Politics while taking a hot shower last spring. Other Lord ideas have been a foot ball game invented at the age of 12 (successful) and a backgammon dice duplicator (unsuccessful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Monopoly & Politics | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

What tangible assets these companies had were constantly and dexterously shuffled for the purpose, according to last week's indictment, of lining Yaleman Garland's well-tailored pockets. Directors were young college graduates who were delighted to get $20 each time they went through the motions of a board meeting. The directors were probably quite ignorant of the fact that the Garland collection of corporations was capped by a holding company, named Public Service Holding Corp. for no apparent reason except that it sounded like big Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Stock in this Garland company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Yaleman | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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