the chap on the right is pearson williams.rson williams and the largest power generation company in the united states and the chairman of goldman sachs. together they decided in 1928 that they were going to start telling people whose companies they wanted to acquire once the crash came that they should load themselves up with debt. one thing conde always believed in as you go to the experts,, what the experts advise you and at the end of the day it is your decision, but you have to trust the experts and these men were his friends and he trusted them and they loaded him up with too much debt so when the crash came, he was worthless and now the publications were actually taken over by then and they tried to get conde out of the company. they might have succeeded if it hadn't have been for edna chase because they wanted to make her in charge of the company. she said not only would she not take the job, but she would quit if she would make sure that all of the staff would quit as well and so he was left in place, but he had to fin