Word: banker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Changed Spots. Then the ward leaders got a surprise in turn-they were not asked to pick the new faces. Meade asked Philadelphia's bankers, lawyers, doctors and the biggest businessmen in town to help him with his selections, got four candidates of almost unbelievable political purity. The machine found itself running an investment banker and economist for controller, a professor of medicine for coroner, a wealthy meat packer for treasurer, a prominent lawyer for register of wills...
Philadelphia's bald, moonfaced Albert M. Greenfield, a real-estate man who became a banker, slid into the department-store business in the depression '30s. With the once prosperous City Stores Co. verging on bankruptcy, Banker Greenfield moved in to protect an $8 million loan, reorganized the company with himself as boss. Under him, City Stores mushroomed from five stores to 22, its gross from $33 million to last year's record $168 million. Profits also hit a record...
...century ago, by virtue of her maritime and industrial supremacy, Britain had been the world's unrivaled banker, investor, manufacturer, middleman, shipper. The earnings of her exports, services and investments abroad gave her security and strength...
...Britain and the U.S. knew it, and knew more details than he had ever known before. Britain's dollar reserves had dropped almost to $1.2 billion, dangerously below the safe minimum of $2 billion. In short, Britain was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy; since she acts as banker for the whole sterling area, her plight also meant the danger of panic and dire economic distress from Manchester to Melbourne...
...Second Thought...In Pueblo, Colo., when Banker Raymond C. C. Thatcher complained that he had been overcharged $375 in inheritance taxes, officials reviewed the case, discovered that it had been wrongly classified, upped Thatcher's taxes another...