Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milan Grol, Minister for Communications, who had the support of three of the five Serb parties, as well as of the Croats and Slovenes in the Government. But the two pan-Serb parties threatened to quit the Government if Grol became Foreign Minister, and so Premier Yovanovich took the portfolio...
Pinto. To the next important portfolio, Defense, he assigned equally pro-Allied General Oscar Escudero Otarola, Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army. Thus in the new Chilean Government the military gained strongly at the expense of the politicians...
Before San Francisco's hydra-headed Transamerica Corp. (see p. 78) took it over in 1941 and absorbed a good part of its installment-paper portfolio, Pacific Finance was the largest auto-finance company on the West Coast, with total loans of more than $100,000,000. Since the war, like all finance companies, its business has consisted largely in writing down its assets as auto owners paid for the cars they had bought before Detroit went...
...other things: it owns three insurance companies and, until last week (see p. 77), it controlled the West Coast's major independent finance company. Last year Transamerica added three small war babies (a foundry, two aircraft-parts manufacturers) and a tobacco company (Axton-Fisher, Fleetwood cigarets) to its portfolio. But last week embattled old A. P. was back on his old stamping grounds, engaged in a knockdown, drag-out fight to gain control of another bank...
...McConnell. But what really titillated Wall Streeters was that Victor Emanuel, who is also an investment banker, might get a chance to underwrite a deal selling Aniline, with its $64,000,000 of assets. This is the juiciest piece of alien property in Leo Crowley's portfolio. The question: Has Crowley finally decided to sell...