Word: banker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nominated Washington Investment Banker George A. Garrett as Minister to Eire to succeed crusty, outspoken David Gray, who was retiring after five wartime years of battling belligerent Irish neutrality and keeping Dublin diplomatic circles in an awed uproar...
Though he has learned to fly in the 1,200,000 miles he has ridden airlanes since 1929, Patterson looks, talks, and dresses more like the banker he started out to be. Small (5 ft. 5 in.), pale-faced, with sharp brown eyes, he usually dresses somberly in grey or black pin-striped suits, lets his dreams fly no higher than his staff of air economists permits...
...ended before he got to camp, so he went back to Wells Fargo. When Vera Anita Witt, a pretty, bright-eyed coed from the University of California, came to work in Wells Fargo for the summer, Pat married her. Then he settled down to his career as a banker...
...liked to tinker, was not. Within a year he and Wickman were running Greyhound together and had laid the foundations of the present Greyhound Corporation. They kept on buying up other lines out of profits, kept their former owners to run them. When their cash dwindled, a Minneapolis banker, Glenn Wood Traer, joined forces with them. He persuaded railroads to hedge their own futures by investing in "the Hound...
...called dead language." Wrote he: "To say that one is going to 'use' Latin in one's daily life is nonsense. . . . But it seems to me there is too little education for its own sake. I do believe that if a boy wants to become a banker, he should emphasize such subjects as economics. . . . I also believe , . . that the so-called 'useless' things-Latin, for example-will help...