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-{{a|fakehistory|}}A long time ago, in a small town in Germany, there was a shoemaker, [[Salomon]] was his name<ref>As a matter of fact, he was in Whitechapel.</ref>. Being a litigious, type, he established the legal concept of corporate personality in {{cite|Salomon|Salomon & Co Ltd|1896|UKHL|1}}, when he sued his corporate self and lost.
+{{a|g|}}A long time ago, in a small town in Germany,<ref>In fact ''none'' of the [[Salomon Brothers]] seem to have come from, or gone to, Germany.</ref> there was a shoemaker, [[Salomon]] was his name...
-His brothers went to America and diversified into {{tag|investment bank}}ing, invented swaps, nearly blew up the financial world on a number of occasions and eventually succumbed to the dreary lukewarm [[entropy]] that is our collective fate, being acquired in 1997 by [[Travelers Group]], which was then aquired by [[Citigroup]] in early 1998.
+===The English brother===
+there was an English Salomon Brother; Basil. He made boots in Whitechapel. Being a litigious, type, he established the legal concept of corporate personality in {{cite|Salomon|Salomon & Co Ltd|1896|UKHL|1}}, when he sued his corporate self and lost. Nothing to do with the modern ski and hiking boot manufacturer as best we can determine — that’s the Frenchie mentioned below.
-The shoemaker still carries on and makes badass skis.
+===The American Brothers===
+His brothers [[Hank]] and [[Chip]] went to America and diversified into {{tag|investment bank}}ing, invented swaps, nearly blew up the financial world on a number of occasions and eventually succumbed to the dreary lukewarm [[entropy]] that is our collective fate, being acquired in 1997 by [[Travelers Group]], which was then aquired by [[Citigroup]] in early 1998.
+===The French Brother===
+There was another Salomon brother, Georges, also more inclined to footwear than investment banking. He went to France and made badass skis<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Group.</ref>, ironically becoming a good client of the investment banking fraternity by being bought by Adidas in 1997 for USD1bn.
+{{sa}}
+*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xDrY3hPDp48C&pg=PA44 Georges Salomon obituary]
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