John Cheever Cowdin
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John Cheever Cowdin (also known as Cheever Cowdin or J. Cheever Cowdin) (1889-September 16, 1960) was an American financier and sportsman who was Chairman of Universal Pictures from 1936-1946 as well as Chairman of Ideal Chemicals and director of Curtiss-Wright. Considered a leader in aviation financing, he was also notably associated with fellow financier George Newell Armsby in the investment house of Blair & Co., which merged with BancAmerica to form Bancamerica-Blair in 1931; through Armsby he was associated with aviation pioneer (and friend of Amelia Earhart) Floyd Odlum.
He was termed by Esquire Magazine not only one of the best-dressed men of his era, but "one of the Big Four of polo from the time of the great Tommy Hitchcock." In his personal life he attracted some attention by his marriage to Mrs. Katherine McCutcheon Abbott, a Manhattan socialite divorcee, in Bristol, Maine during a cruise on his yacht, Surf.
[edit] Print References
Time Magazine, 19 August 1929 (account of his ship-board marriage)
"The Art of Wearing Clothes" by George Francis Frazier, Jr., Esquire, Sept. 1960
Obituary, New York Times, 16 September 1960
[edit] Web pages
Cowdin's actions as part of insider-trading history: http://www.isnie.org/ISNIE06/Papers06/02.3/dolgopolov.pdf
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,737701,00.html?promoid=googlep
Listed as polo champion - http://www.internationalpoloclub.com/news/news_open7.htm (on team with W. Averell Harriman and Tommy Hitchcock in 1927, also played in 1925 and possibly as a boy in 1904)
