Word: banker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investment Banker Willard H. York, 36, hustled his wife, mother, son & daughter into the family sedan and began the usual Sunday drive from his ranch to church in San Antonio. He had a particularly gritty rag to chew over with his conscience. On March 19, the SEC had filed suit against him. It charged that York had done business while insolvent, and had used customers' securities without their consent. The same day, Dr. Lloyd Irving Ross, one of San Antonio's top surgeons, had filed suit for $80,279. Dr. Ross was an old friend, a fellow Methodist...
...Banker York swung into a rocky lane leading to the highway, he saw a man standing beneath a roadside live oak tree. Then he saw the gun in the man's hand...
Died. Perry Belmont, 96, son of Banker August Belmont, grandson of Commodore Matthew Perry, onetime Congressman from New York (1881-89), onetime U.S. Minister to Spain (1888-89); in Newport...
...waiter in a Boston hotel. Within thirteen months he saved sixteen hundred dollars and made two acquaintances who were to prove extremely useful. One of them was a wealthy and influential manufacturer, the other a prominent banking official. Mr. Forsyth got Cocoris a license, and the banker got him a loan enabling him in 1916 to start a combination pool room and Greek restaurant on Knee of carrying itself, Cocoris scrapped the pool room. The concern moved to its present location on the second floor at 51 Stuart Street in 1925 when Kneeland Street was widened...
...Like the banker he had been, he figured that safety pays off in the cash register. Said he: "If we take a chance and send a plane from Chicago to New York and it gets through, we gain $3,000 in revenue. If it cracks up, it costs us $1,000,000. All humanitarian principles aside, who'd gamble with the odds a million to three thousand against...