Word: investors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questionable whether any other banking house, from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams, if all the utilities in which he is interested should suddenly be demolished, one U. S. electric light out of every ten would go dark. The investor in Shenandoah is virtually turning his money over to Sidney Weinburg and Waddill Catchings of Goldman Sachs and to Harrison Williams of Central States Electric Corp. -men whose names are million-dollar assets in billion-dollar industries...
...American straphangers, of course. Where bond issues reach into thousands of millions, the banking fraternity will whoop it up in glee, of course. What if the wary investor steers clear of such bonds, having in mind fresh cancellations of German bonds 5c per $100? There are plenty of estates held in trust and plenty of innocent widows and orphans on whom the bank's allotment will be palmed off all over the United States...
...million dollars in 4½% convertible debentures makes little sense to the simple soul who is merely looking for a good aero stock. Neither are the standard financial columns, vague in their statements, technical in their language, obscure in their significance, of much help to him. Thus the small investor is forced to select his stocks largely by the Blindfold Test...
Information on the investments of one such market follower was last week disclosed through the daily column in the New York Telegram by Colyumist Heywood Broun. The investor is, of course, Mr. Broun himself. Managing a column which is about equally divided between the controversial and the autobiographical, Mr. Broun, in one of his revelatory moments, mentioned the nature and extent of his corporate holdings. Purposely naive (as when he remarked that should his General Realty stock prove him to be his own landlord he would certainly do something about a defective window) Mr. Broun's commitments indicated...
...Jersey, and Mohawk Hudson Power Corp. The company was designed to "foster closer relations between the great public utility systems of the east"-i. e., to promote utility mergers and consolidations. What would Brown Derby think? How could the Nation approve? It must be conceded, however, that Investor Broun has doubtless profited tidily on his 25 shares of United Corp., which, starting on the Produce Exchange, moved last week to the Big Board where it opened Thursday at 67 and closed Saturday...