Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week in a modest Manhattan office at No. 31 Nassau St. subscription books were opened for a $180,000,000 bond issue. By the afternoon of the next day the issue was sold, the books closed. With the same absence of fanfare, Charles R. Dunn, fiscal agent for the twelve Federal Land Banks, disposed of a $100,000,000 issue last December, one of $239,000,000 last June, another of $162,000,000 a year ago. Last week's offering brought the total of Federal Land Bank financing for the past twelve months...
...leading underwriting houses of the land. But Mr. Dunn is not a banker except by training. He risks no capital, gets no commissions, is paid a straight salary apportioned, along with his expenses and wages of his three employes, among the Land Banks he represents. He is also fiscal agent for the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, which make short-term crop and marketing loans to farmers, has disposed of $1,800,000,000 of Intermediate Credit Bank debentures in the past seven years...
...wholesale grocery salesman, later learned all there was to know about the commercial paper business, was with the banking and commercial paper house of Bond & Goodwin in 1929 when Eugene Meyer, then Federal Farm Loan Commissioner, telephoned him from Washington. After that long-distance interview he became a fiscal agent, with his amazingly wide acquaintance among U. S. bankers, acquired in distributing commercial paper, as his most valuable asset. A large, plump, kindly man with close-cropped hair, Mr. Dunn raises prize roses at his home in Westfield, N. J. He can never remember their botanical names...
...recent Land Bank issues have been sold to refund outstanding bonds with higher coupons. And since by law the Land Banks may charge borrowers no more than 1% in excess of the rate at which they themselves are able to borrow, Mr. Dunn as the farmers' Wall Street agent is now providing mortgage money...
...starts the story from the very beginning, with the births of herself and her brothers. "But Papa had a good time before Johnny was born because he discovered how to stop all the traffic in Paris. He would take Mamma out in our Citroen and yell to the agents de police, 'femme enceinte,' which means, 'woman with child,' and the agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until Papa got by." This system broke down, however, the night the Abbes motored out to Le Bourget to see Lindbergh land. "Then Mamma suddenly...