Word: hamet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sir James Hamet Dunn, 81, Canadian financier; of a heart ailment; in St. Andrews, N.B. As a young lawyer, Dunn edged his way into corporate financing, was soon selling up to $10 million worth of securities a day and pocketing daily commissions up to $60,000. U.S. Banker Otto Kahn called him "a greater financier than all of us." Britain awarded him a baronetcy (one of the few hereditary titles ever given a Canadian) for his World War I services in halting shipments of neutral nickel to Germany. In 1932, by investing a mere...
...pimps; "Treetop Tall" and "Coal Oil Johnny," two policemen; "Speedway," a gambler; and "Dr. Scissors," a famed Beale Street medicine man. They frequented such dives as Peewee's, a citadel of early jazz, the Hole in the Wall, and such infamous gambling dens as the Grey Mule and Hamet...