Reminiscences of Paul Codman Cabot, 1980

Biographical Note

Financier; investment banker

Scope and Contents

Childhood, family, Brookline, Massachusetts; Harvard Business School: classmates, Porcellian Club; Credit Department, 1st National Bank of Boston, 1923-24; President, State Street Investment Corporation, 1924- ; crash of 1929; Revenue Act of 1936; Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of mutual fund industry; Director, Salvage Division, War Production Board, 1941-42; membership on boards of directors of Kraft Company, National Shawmut Bank, Ford Motor Company, J.P. Morgan Bank, Continenetal Can Company, Eastern Gas & Fuel Company; member, Harvard Board of Overseers; treasurer, Harvard Corporation; summers at Pulpit Harbor, Maine; his approach to stock and security investments; reminiscences of Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Lamont, Charles Dickey, Sidney Weinberg, Harvard classmates, other directors

Subjects

• Banks and banking--United States.
• Cabot, Paul Codman, 1898-1994--Interviews.
• Capitalists and financiers--Interviews.
• Depressions--1929--United States.
• Governmental investigations--United States.
• Harvard University.
• Holland, Jessica, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Investment advisors--Interviews.
• Investment banking--United States.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.