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Greene, who repeated it to Professor Brewer, urging that gentleman to take Austen in hand. But the professor burst out laughing, and put the saying into circulation. Mr. Silas Tredway, whose list of directorships is too long to print, also undertook to remonstrate with the son of his old friend, Hilary Vane. The young lawyer heard him respectfully.
It would have been his sister, of course, who was evidently such chums with Lady Cressage, who gave him the hint to help the General to something if he could. And when you came to think of it, these aristocrats and military men and so on, had no other notion of making money save by directorships. Clearly, that was the way of it.
He was scruple and delicacy itself in all financial matters that touched his public life directorships, investments, and the like, no less than in all that concerned interest and patronage. He would have been a bold man who had dared to propose to William Ashe any expedient whatever by which his public place might serve his private gain.
Through interlocking directorates. Morgan & Co., the First National Bank, the National City Bank, the Bankers Trust Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co., which were all closely affiliated, had extended their control until they held, 118 directorships in 34 banks with combined resources of $2,679,000,000. 30 directorships in 10 insurance companies with total assets of $2,293,000,000.
One man with four spades will take a chance to see if he can make five, and another man with directorships in three corporations will strive to make it four." Jimmy's father chuckled. "Some families with one infant will try to make it two " "Not on your life!" " And some others are satisfied with what they've got," finished Jimmy Holden's father.
Where could he go and get five thousand dollars a year for his services? How could he live at the rate he was living if he lost this place? Art directorships were not numerous. Men who could fill them fairly acceptably were not impossible to find.
He goes about the world, sits on boards and committees, fills directorships and trusteeships, pays pew-rent, and runs towns.
When his engagement was announced to Dumbarton's cousin, Lady Ermyntrude Stanley-Dalrymple, elder daughter of Lord Belfast, a social personage and a power in the inner councils of the Conservative Party, it was suggested that there might be some connection between this rather unexpected event and Lord Belfast's heavy losses on the Stock Exchange and subsequent directorships and holdings of shares in his future son-in-law's companies.
Here the brethren organized a missionary society, fashioned after the plan of our General Missionary Society, and in which life directorships, life memberships and annual memberships were obtained by the payment of a sum of money. The writer of these Recollections will explain that the formation of this Society was not his work. He doubted whether the brethren were prepared for it.
He took what fell in his way magistracies, bank directorships, or what else, and lived unambitiously on his moderate but sufficient means, always in the front social position, and, of course, in universal respect.
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