Word: schroder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pink coats and popinjays were not really his dish. Never really happy unless he is closing-or opening-a deal, he kept a finger in the financial pot. He made friends with the great London bankers, J. Henry Schroder & Co. and Alfred Loewenstein, the hard-headed Belgian who came up from nothing to be rated as third richest man in the world, controlling a worldwide utility empire. And V.E. played the stockmarket. By 1928, when he had just turned 30, he was worth some $40,000,000-on paper. But it was not enough. It just whetted his appetite...
...Freres & Co. announced the formation of the American Anglo-Transvaal Corp., a privately-financed company to promote mining and industry in South Africa. (No stock in the new company will be offered to the public for the time being.) The London firms of Lazard Brothers & Co. and J. Henry Schroder were invited to share in the original $9 million subscription of American Anglo-Transvaal, and accepted...
...Panamanian corporation) TACA must somehow be "Americanized" to suit the letter of the law. To CAB Yerex divulged a plan he had worked out to do just that: he wants to put all his TACA stock (over 85%) into a voting trust, to be engineered by Investment Bankers Schroder Rockefeller & Co. Over half the stock would be owned by Americans and all of the five voting trustees except Yerex himself would be U.S. citizens-among them Schroder Rockefeller Vice President Avery Rockefeller, whose second cousin Nelson is now officially the U.S.'s No. 1 good-neighbor man. Under this...
This program would seem to wrap TACA up in the American flag for keeps. Nevertheless, whispers still flew about "sinister British influence." One whisper (that Schroder Rockefeller is controlled by London's famed banking firm of J. Henry Schroder & Co.) was not hard to answer. For under terms of the plan American individuals (not Schroder Rockefeller) would boss TACA. Another objection had more substance: Yerex would still own all of British West Indian Airways and one-third of TACA's Brazilian offshoot...
...sulfa drugs, hormones, antishock vaccines), Swiss-controlled since Hermann Goring ordered its German parent to sell its U.S. stock interest five years ago. Month ago, the Treasury stripped Schering of eight top executives; last week Schering got a new Treasury-approved vice president and director: Gerald E. Donovan of Schroder Rockefeller...