Word: moneyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrés Gomiz, former director of the nationalized Argentine oil industry. But it was two others who were most remembered back in Argentina. One was boyishly handsome Guillermo Patricio Kelly, top bullyboy of Perón's street-fighting Alianza greyshirts. The other was Jorge Antonio, biggest moneyman of Perón's regime...
Sound Money. The Bank of the Manhattan Co. was one of the city's biggest when Chase was founded in a one-room Broadway office in 1877 by John Thompson, a Wall Streeter with such an abiding admiration for Sound-Moneyman Salmon P. Chase. Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, that he named the bank for him. While the Manhattan Co.'s bank grew slowly, Chase grew rapidly. It took over so many other banks that it once had 84 directors...
...money expert, Burgess dabbles in such weighty and occult fiscal matters as rediscount rates and refundings, deals in sums that would frighten a lesser man. As manager of the biggest peacetime financing in history, he must raise $65 billion this calendar year. Last week Congress promoted Moneyman Burgess from Deputy Secretary to the new post of Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs at a salary...
Novelist Thomas Costain has taught history to more people outside the classroom than any professional historian has ever taught inside. His swashbuckling sagas, The Black Rose and The Moneyman, not only gave readers a bowing acquaintance with the courts of Kublai Khan and medieval France, but made Costain himself the contemporary king of historical romance. To the fans who have bought nearly 5,000,000 copies of his eight books, King Costain can do no wrong, but the sad truth about his latest novel, The Silver Chalice, is that it rarely swashes and regularly buckles...
...moneyman behind the opposition is South Africa's wealthiest man: fabulous Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, the diamond king, who owns gold and uranium mines, railways and newspapers as well. The industrialists want cheap Negro labor. Neither industrialists nor liberals want to abolish South Africa's color bar, but both are willing to give the blacks more education and opportunity. In the heightened emotions of the present crisis, they find it necessary to show that they are not "nigger lovers." Arguing in Parliament for technical training for black workers, Jacobus Strauss declared, "Higher skills are in any case beyond...