Tag: Banking
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“There is a defined gulf Between credit and character If you doubt this, ask any banker; He will advise that character is nice But it is not collateral.” Evan Rhys
http://thegildedageera.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-henry-g-marquand-mansion-new-york.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gurdon_Marquand
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The Best-Hated Man in the United States
A sad tale of corruption and naivete: A young man of 28, Ferdinand Ward proposes opening a brokerage and banking firm Grant & Ward with $100,000 investments from President Grant and his son Ulysses “Buck” Grant, Jr. The father/son team assumes that profits earned with the investments taken in from veterans and millionaires will be…
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Getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden–Buck Crenshaw
courtesy of Bennington Museum Who doesn’t like solid rooms, good cigars and suits that fit as they should? Who doesn’t like coming home to a flowering cottage garden with white hydrangeas lining the drive and roses over the door? Your wife appears in the latest fashion with well fed kids in tow and your money…
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Occupy Wall Street 1886
Today I’m a bit stuck–well, not really–I could write for days about the Crenshaw women undermining Buck’s future wife, but it feels too like dessert before dinner and I’m a traditionalist. Hanging over me like the Sunday after a good vacation is MERCHANT BANKING. I’m being dramatic here. It’s actually exciting to peruse titles of…
Author Adrienne Morris 