Word: banker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been bogged down in endless, petty testimonies) by obtaining unanimous agreement to limit witnesses' time to one hour, and by sending field teams to the troubled northern border. Greece at last had a coalition Government. The new Premier, in place of Tsaldaris, was frail, ailing ex-Banker Demetrios Maximos, a nonparty ex-royalist. The new Government, promising to review the case of all political prisoners, made a start by releasing women & children. But civil strife, which had slackened after the U.N. commission's arrival, flared up again, this time farther south than before; Communists boldly raided the Sparta...
Sweating out" the American loan had been bad enough for Britain. Now Sir Wilfrid and Cobbold, on behalf of the nation that only yesterday was the world's banker, had to ask financial peoples whom many Britons still regard as of the "subject races" to show Britain financial mercy...
This dramatic, unsolicited windfall came from 76-year-old Banker Thomas William Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. It was almost enough to cover the largest item on the list of needed cathedral reconstruction: $520,000 to repair the roof and reface the Caen stone, damaged by centuries of British weather as well as bombs. (The stone was brought from Normandy to rebuild the 6th Century church which had been destroyed by fire...
...List? But Prospective Groom McCloy was well aware that, among knowing Washingtonians, young Mr. Collado's increasing fondness for having his own way was generally looked upon as one of the chief reasons why Publisher-Banker Eugene Meyer quit the presidency two months ago. With backing from the National Advisory Council, the Government agency set up to watch over the big U.S. investment in the Bank (nearly 35% of its stock), Collado apparently felt that he was strong enough to get what he wanted-even if the president wanted something else. One thing Meyer especially feared was that...
...Banker Schacht was either sick or stalling. His attorney reported that the onetime Reich Finance Minister had undergone an operation for a "serious rupture," but denazification officials in Frankfurt still hoped to try him by mid-February. In view of Fritzsche's sentence, most observers guessed that Schacht would mend slowly...