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unusual facts about Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt


Bill Mathis

After retiring from football, Mathis began a career on Wall Street, starting at the firm Cogan, Berlind, Weill & Levitt.


Alma Cogan

The 2011 British film In Love with Alma Cogan features a struggling seaside theatre manager trying to shake-off the ghost of Cogan, who had performed there in his youth.

Cyrus Hashemi

Hashemi later returned $290,000 to Cogan, via the office of John Stanley Pottinger, after Cogan had determined that less than $100,000 had been spent for its intended purpose.

Henri Cogan

Henri Cogan (born 13 September 1924 in Paris; † 23 September 2003 in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French actor and stuntman.

History of union busting in the United States

According to Martin J. Levitt, "because of Landrum-Griffin's vague language, attorneys are able to directly interfere in the union-organizing process without any reporting requirements. Therefore, "young lawyers run bold anti-union wars and dance all over Landrum-Griffin.

Machinists Union Racing

Scott Atchison and Kevin Cogan drove for the team in 1988 and saw little success, although Cogan did register the team's best finish of third at the Long Beach Grand Prix in 1988, finishing 13th in the 1988 championship while Atchison finished 20th.

Marshall Cogan

Cogan's first deal was the takeover of General Felt Industries (GFI) in 1974 which he completed with fellow investment banker Stephen Swid.

Among Cogan's partners at CBWL were Sandy Weill, later chairman and CEO of Citigroup, Arthur Levitt, later the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Roger Berlind a noted Broadway producer and long-time member of the board of Lehman Brothers.

Stephen Swid

Among Swid and Cogan's most notable acquisitions were takeover of the Sheller-Globe Corporation and later the purchase of the 21 Club.

The Diocese of Meath

The Irish Public Records Office was destroyed by the Irish Republican Army in 1922, in effect destroying one thousand years of records, including most of the records from that source quoted by Cogan.

Thomas Cogan

In 1759 he was in the Netherlands, where he found that the Rev. Benjamin Sowden, the English minister of the presbyterian church at Rotterdam, supported by the English and Dutch governments with two pastors, required a substitute; Cogan applied for and obtained the place.

A long analysis of Cogan's writings is in Jared Sparks's ‘Collection of Essays and Tracts in Theology’ (1824), which also contains (pp. 237–362) a reprint of his Letters to William Wilberforce on the doctrine of Hereditary Depravity, by a Layman (pseud. i.e. T. Cogan), in which he denounced the view supported by William Wilberforce in his Practical View of the prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians, and argued for the happiness of all mankind.

Union busting

In 1980, the author of Confessions of a Union Buster named Martin J. Levitt reported that he conducted a counter-organizing drive at a nursing home in Sebring, Ohio.

Protracted delays can turn an organizing campaign into a war and according to Martin J. Levitt such battles are almost always won by management.


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