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Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, Jr. (1851–1925), known first as the "Young Napoleon of Finance," [1] and subsequently as "the Best-Hated Man in the United States," was an American swindler. The collapse of his Ponzi scheme caused the financial ruin of many people, including famous persons such as Thomas Nast and the former U.S. President Ulysses S ...
In May 1884 the two firms, the Marine National and the brokerage firm Grant and Ward, crashed when their owners’ speculative investments lost value. The failure of Grant and Ward [3] and Marine National Bank tipped off the Panic of 1884. [7] When the firms collapsed, it had a ripple effect across Wall Street, causing other firms to fail.
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 73 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running American television serie
At the same time, Grant's son Ulysses Jr. ("Buck") had opened a Wall Street brokerage house with Ferdinand Ward. Ward was regarded as a rising star, and the firm, Grant & Ward, was initially successful. [28] In 1883, Grant joined the firm and invested $100,000 of his own money. [29]
He entered into a partnership in a banking and brokerage firm with Ferdinand Ward. Grant and his father each invested $100,000 in the firm as two of the four partners, and sought investments from veterans and millionaires. However, neither Grant practiced due diligence in overseeing the operations of the firm, Grant & Ward.
After NBC expanded Today to seven days a week in the 1990s, the name Weekend Today was adapted primarily for promotional purposes. The Saturday edition of the program, titled Saturday Today since March 2022, is broadcast live in alignment with the weekday editions of Today from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time .
Day of Absence is a play written by American playwright Douglas Turner Ward, which premiered off-off-Broadway in 1965. [1] Telling the story of a Southern town where all of its Black residents suddenly disappear, Day of Absence is notable for most productions starring Black actors in whiteface in a reverse minstrel show style. [2]
Ward was the founding editor of Audience Magazine (1970–1973) and the editor of American Heritage Magazine (1977–1982). His 1989 biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, A First-class Temperament: the Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.