Word: banker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington conference was generaled by U.S. Treasury Secretary John Wesley Snyder, a rather unimaginative banker, and by Sir Wilfrid Eady, whose thin face, horn-rimmed spectacles and realistic command of facts make him the embodiment of the British civil servant. The details of the talk between them and their experts the world did not hear. But it heard much of the $3,75° million loan to Britain, and of "discrimination" and of "convertibility" (see INTERNATIONAL) . The conferees could bring about no full solution of the crisis; that was for the U.S. Congress and for Parliament, if a solution could...
...handsome German import-export banker who inherited his prosperous business thought currency restrictions silly because they interfered with some of the bigger deals...
Around the horseshoe table, behind their national name plates, sat the guardians of peace. Their assistants clustered about them, attentively bent forward, ready to leap into any possible breaches with a saving statistic. Under the bluish-white fluorescent glow, Andrei Gromyko sat erect, somberly garbed as any banker, reading in that flat, husky voice which has been described by several American women as replete with sex appeal...
...often a hindrance to success; hard workers may be too busy to meet the right people. He feels that if he had not been captain of the Yale '07 football team, he would not have met Templeton Crocker (Yale '08), who introduced him to his grandfather, California Banker William H. Crocker. Young Sam was hired to liquidate Crocker's corporate catchall which owned, among other things, the Monterey Peninsula. While liquidating it, young Morse formed a San Francisco syndicate which bought the peninsula for more than...
...Waymack, 58, who looks more like a farmer than a Pulitzer-Prize-winning editor of the Des Moines Register. The scientist was Robert Fox Bacher, 41, cool, deliberate, diplomatic, the head of nuclear research at Cornell University and one of the scientists who assembled, the first atomic bomb. The banker was Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 51, a mellow, courtly, impeccably dressed philanthropist, partner in New York's Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The industrialist was tall, rangy Sumner Pike, 55, a bachelor and adventurous industrialist with a shrewd, twangy Yankee humor...