Word: blyth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government asked that the 17 defendants be prohibited from acting both as adviser and underwriter for any company, or from having a representative on the board of such a company. Most important, the Government asked that the nine largest firms (Morgan Stanley; First Boston; Dillon, Read; Kuhn, Loeb; Blyth; Smith, Barney; Lehman Bros.; Harriman Ripley; Goldman, Sachs) be prevented from participating in any securities-selling syndicate in which any of the others participates...
Stopping off to warm his ego in a hero-worshiping small town, he seduces the local belle (Ann Blyth), hornswoggles a keen judge of character, her father (John Litel), and cleans every small businessman along Main Street in a succession of crap games. In an expansive moment he also helps his slow-moving brother (William Gargan) to swing an important business deal; a little later he almost persuades his brother's wife (Ruth Warrick) to skip town with him. He has, it seems, just one good streak: his young nephew's fatuous, gee-whillikers devotion inspires...
Akihito already has a male instructor, Reginald H. Blyth, a Briton interned in Japan during the war, who has been teaching the prince English since last December, thinks Mrs. Vining may be "disappointed with his limited vocabulary." (Akihito learned the future tense only last week.) Says Blyth: "If only she could develop initiative in him. He is too passive...
...Aller's company received three times the rightful price. . . . Aller and his pal, Flash, are cooking up even more ambitious deals ... in Seattle, Portland, Ore., Spokane. . . . Louisville [is] listed on the bankers' books. Some of the blue chip banking outfits of the country are involved: Blyth & Co., Nuveen & Co., First Boston, Dillon, Read and others...
...family into selling their half of K. & T. Instead it was the fear of much stiffer capital-gains taxes this year. By getting out nf hours before 1941's end, the Kearneys pay only 1941 tax rates on the huge sale. To help the ladies under the wire, Blyth & Co. (with co-underwriters The Wisconsin Co.) handed over the cash before they had sold a single share of stock. Their gallant risk panned out. This week investors were anteing $5,249,200 for the 198,083 K. & T. shares sold by the Kearneys...