Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cummings, a McKesson & Robbins director, was called on the telephone by the company's treasurer, Julian F. Thompson, and told about the receivership. Mr. Cummings thereupon turned amateur detective. He tipped off another director. Partner Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs, who is a governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and the Exchange suspended trading in McKesson & Robbins next morning...
...Smith had moved its New York office to Brooklyn, where Mr. Thompson interviewed a "funny looking customer" named Vernard who remarked: "I hear you're doing a lot of alcohol business these days." Mr. Thompson found that the crude drug department warehouses were nothing but addresses-one a stenographer's, another a mimeograph operator's. While he was wondering what to do next, the receivership was granted...
...days before, Mr. Thompson had refused to sign the papers for a $3,000,000 bond issue Dr. Coster wanted to sell. Assistant Treasurer Dietrich was reported by one of the receivers to have "shouldered the entire blame." So Messrs. Cummings, Thompson and others went to New York, got trustees appointed for reorganization of the company under the Chandler (bankruptcy...
Chapter 5. By the fourth day of the case possible missing assets had grown to $18,000,000-$10,000,000 in inventories and $8,000,000 in accounts receivable. Five investigations began-by the SEC, Department of Justice, U. S. Treasury, New York State Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., and New York County District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Mr. Bennett got started first, sent a man to Canada to try to find some warehouses...
Promoter of smart shops, smart travel, and now smart hotels, Bernice Bost is a bustling, buxom divorcée. Last fall, when Papal Knight George MacDonald acquired an interest in Henry Doherty's hotel and resort properties, she went to New York, charmed his secretary with a telephone call and a "Dear-Miss-Kindly-Secretary-Whose-Name-I-Do-Not-Know" letter, sold MacDonald on the plan...