Word: banker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Given since 1941 in memory of Manhattan Banker George Foster Peabody by the University of Georgia, which he endowed...
Religion v. Materialism. Solon Barnes is a Quaker, brought up in unworldliness. He marries (for love) into a richer family of Friends and becomes a Philadelphia banker. For many years he floats along on uneasy rationalizations about the sacred stewardship of wealth (which he honestly tries to live up to). When his associates mire themselves and their bank deeper & deeper in crooked, within-the-law self-interest, he can stay silent no longer. In part the novel is a study of the losing struggle between the moribund U.S. religious sense and proliferating U.S. materialism...
Another publisher, more of a merchant than a crusader, died last week at 85. Gardner Cowles of Des Moines, a small town Iowa banker who turned to publishing at 42, made a fetish of circulation, made his fair, unexciting Register and Tribune an Iowa habit. Sons Gardner Jr. ("Mike") and John, more journalistically adventurous than their father, have spread the Cowles empire into the Minneapolis field, into five radio stations, a feature syndicate, Look magazine...
...Touch of Inflation? The President's aides and cronies spent another futile week of monkeying with the steel strike. Old Crony John W. Snyder, onetime St. Louis banker and now director of OWMR, wanted to settle the strike with a little inflation. Price Boss Chester Bowles, no crony, wanted a line to hold. While they argued, the striking Steelworkers' Phil Murray and the struck Steel Corporation's Ben Fairless could do nothing but cool their heels. More than anyone else, they wanted to come to terms, but that was impossible until Mr. Truman's policy...
...rose to announce that two men had tied with marks of 85. There would be another quiz to determine the winner. One nervous man-black-haired Lester B. Stone, onetime executive secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-showed up on the stage. The second contender-plump, wealthy William Rogers Coe, banker and vice president of the Virginian Railway Co.-had given the whole thing up, was found across the street visiting some pals at LaRue's Restaurant...