Author: United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Capital Transit Co. Matters
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Reports and Documents
Author: United States. Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 1962
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Languages : en
Pages : 1962
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The White Sharks of Wall Street
Author: Diana B. Henriques
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743202678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
It almost seems that Thomas Mellon Evans was a man so far ahead of his contemporaries that he had moved into the shadows before the full force of his business style had dawned on the rest of corporate America. At every step in his career, he was barging in where few would follow -- at first. But follow they did, at last." -- from the Prologue The first in-depth portrait of the life and times of the trailblazing financier Thomas Mellon Evans -- the man who pursued wealth and power in the 1950s with a brash ruthlessness that forever changed the face of corporate America. Long before Michael Milken was using junk bonds to finance corporate takeovers, Thomas Mellon Evans used debt, cash, and the tax code to obtain control of more than eighty American companies. Long before investors began to lobby for "shareholder's rights," Evans was demanding that public companies be run only for their shareholders -- not for their employees, their executives, or their surrounding communities. To some, Evans's merciless style presaged much that is wrong with corporate life today. To others, he intuitively knew what was needed to keep America competitive in the wake of a global war. In The White Sharks of Wall Street, New York Times investigative reporter Diana Henriques provides the first biography of this pivotal figure in American business history. She also portrays the other pioneering corporate raiders of the postwar period, such as Robert Young and Louis Wolfson, and shows how these men learned from one another and advanced one another's takeover tactics. She relates in dramatic detail a number of important early takeover fights -- Wolfson's challenge to Montgomery Ward, Young's move on the New York Central Railroad, the fight for Follansbee Steel -- and shows how they foreshadowed the desperate battle waged by Tom Evans's son, Ned Evans, to keep the British raider Robert Maxwell away from his Macmillan publishing empire during the 1980s. Henriques also reaches beyond the business arena to tally the tragic personal cost of Evans's pursuit of success and to show how the family dynasty shattered when his sons were driven by his own stubbornness and pride to become his rivals. In the end, the battling patriarch faced his youngest son in a poignant battle for control at the Crane Company, the once-famous Chicago plumbing and valve company that Tom Evans had himself seized in a brilliant takeover coup twenty-five years earlier. The White Sharks of Wall Street is a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary man, whose career blazed across the sky and then sank into obscurity -- but not before he had provided the template for how American business would operate for the next four decades.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743202678
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
It almost seems that Thomas Mellon Evans was a man so far ahead of his contemporaries that he had moved into the shadows before the full force of his business style had dawned on the rest of corporate America. At every step in his career, he was barging in where few would follow -- at first. But follow they did, at last." -- from the Prologue The first in-depth portrait of the life and times of the trailblazing financier Thomas Mellon Evans -- the man who pursued wealth and power in the 1950s with a brash ruthlessness that forever changed the face of corporate America. Long before Michael Milken was using junk bonds to finance corporate takeovers, Thomas Mellon Evans used debt, cash, and the tax code to obtain control of more than eighty American companies. Long before investors began to lobby for "shareholder's rights," Evans was demanding that public companies be run only for their shareholders -- not for their employees, their executives, or their surrounding communities. To some, Evans's merciless style presaged much that is wrong with corporate life today. To others, he intuitively knew what was needed to keep America competitive in the wake of a global war. In The White Sharks of Wall Street, New York Times investigative reporter Diana Henriques provides the first biography of this pivotal figure in American business history. She also portrays the other pioneering corporate raiders of the postwar period, such as Robert Young and Louis Wolfson, and shows how these men learned from one another and advanced one another's takeover tactics. She relates in dramatic detail a number of important early takeover fights -- Wolfson's challenge to Montgomery Ward, Young's move on the New York Central Railroad, the fight for Follansbee Steel -- and shows how they foreshadowed the desperate battle waged by Tom Evans's son, Ned Evans, to keep the British raider Robert Maxwell away from his Macmillan publishing empire during the 1980s. Henriques also reaches beyond the business arena to tally the tragic personal cost of Evans's pursuit of success and to show how the family dynasty shattered when his sons were driven by his own stubbornness and pride to become his rivals. In the end, the battling patriarch faced his youngest son in a poignant battle for control at the Crane Company, the once-famous Chicago plumbing and valve company that Tom Evans had himself seized in a brilliant takeover coup twenty-five years earlier. The White Sharks of Wall Street is a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary man, whose career blazed across the sky and then sank into obscurity -- but not before he had provided the template for how American business would operate for the next four decades.
Report
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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HOUSE REPORTS
Author: U.S. 89TH CONGRESS
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
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Report
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Shelflist of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character) in the United States Senate Library from Seventy-fourth Congress (January 3, 1935) Through Eighty-fifth Congress (January 3, 1959).
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Our American Government
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Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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The Committee on House Administration is pleased to present this revised book on our United States Government. This publication continues to be a popular introductory guide for American citizens and those of other countries who seek a greater understanding of our heritage of democracy. The question-and-answer format covers a broad range of topics dealing with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of our Government as well as the electoral process and the role of political parties.--Foreword.
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Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Committee on House Administration is pleased to present this revised book on our United States Government. This publication continues to be a popular introductory guide for American citizens and those of other countries who seek a greater understanding of our heritage of democracy. The question-and-answer format covers a broad range of topics dealing with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of our Government as well as the electoral process and the role of political parties.--Foreword.
Capital Transit Co. Matters
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Facts of Reconstruction
Author: John Roy Lynch
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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