Business & Finance: Barterer

When the War was over, Bertram Coles Neidecker, tall, slim son of a Brooklyn realtor, quit the U. S. Air Corps and joined Herbert Clark Hoover's relief mission to the starving Poles. He married a Pole, Sybil, daughter of Maurice Washington Kozminski of the French Line, and set himself up in Coblenz as a money changer to confused U. S. soldiers in the Army of Occupation. Later he moved to Paris, opened a Travelers Bank a few doors from Morgan et Cie. By 1928 Banker Neidecker had bought a yacht, put his bank in...

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