Word: banker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. businessman has wished that he was big enough to get in to see Elisha Walker in his official habitat: the austere offices of Wall Street's famed international banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of which he is senior partner. Stiff-starched Banker Walker is not an easy...
...oring, who had no illusions about his impending fate, was unmoved by the speech. But many of his fellow defendants -who had hoped to find refuge in their fields of public opinion, industry, finance -blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...
...Treasurer Fines shrewdly ordered the banker not to cash the check, instead to borrow enough U.S. dollars on it to pay off the bonds. If the Canadian dollar stayed put, the gamble would cost only the interest on the New York loan...
Peter W. R. Mitchell, a smart British banknote salesman, coolly turned the misunderstanding to his own account. He offered to print a colorful series of Guatemalan currency featuring a map of British Honduras. Gasped Banker Manuel Noriego Morales, "Will your Government permit you to print it?" "We are a free country," replied Mitchell smoothly, "and my company is not interested in politics...
...bring Trippe to heel, Tom Morgan teamed up with Banker Colt, (Another board member, Manhattan banker & Hearstman John Wesley Hanes, was in, then out of the cabal.) They argued that Pan Am's fortunes were at a low point politically. Trippe's Chosen Instrument talk had so stirred up the Administration that even President Truman had stepped in to make sure that Pan Am would have plenty of competition (TIME, June...