The tales of modern American financiers is another field of absorbing interest.

Was it 'good luck' that placed Girard at one move at the head of American financiers?

All this is likely to pass away, under the pressure of the Japanese, and of European and American financiers.

They obey the orders of French, English and American financiers....

He needed no introduction, for we recognised at once J. Perry Spencer, one of the foremost of American financiers and a trustee of the university.

In an article in The Atlantic magazine, which he later expanded into a book, Johnson wrote that American financiers had pulled off a "quiet coup".

" American financiers, it is true," he went on excitedly, taking out a beautifully chased gold cigarette case, "have lost millions in mining in Peru.