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Kolster. To verify another typical manipulation, Counsel Gray put George F. Breen on the stand. Mr. Breen described himself as a free lance operator who made markets in stocks for corporations or their officials. In October 1928 Operator Breen learned that Board Chairman Rudolph Spreckels of Kolster Radio Corp. (now in receivership) wished to dispose of his holdings. Taking Arthur W. Cutten, famed Chicago bull, and plunging Lawrence P. Fisher of Detroit into partnership, Operator Breen obtained options on 250,000 shares of Chairman Spreckels' stock at prices ranging between $70 and $74 a share. The first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anything Can Be Done. . . | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...Operator Breen: Not at all. It is buying and selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anything Can Be Done. . . | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Fortnight ago President de Valera's oath-abolition bill slid through first reading in the Free State Dail unopposed. Last week its second reading opened with a striking boast by Tipperary's rip-roaring Deputy Dan Breen (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: No Fear! | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Amid dead silence Dan Breen earnestly continued, "I did not go out to kill French to make room for James McNeill† or any other man to succeed him. I went out to kill French, and, if it were possible, to kill the last link of British supremacy in Ireland, and I would do the same again tomorrow morning if the occasion arose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: No Fear! | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Wall Street as "No. 1 bear." W. E. Button &; Co., where Smith makes his office. Ludwig Bendix, no relation to Vincent. Miss M. A. Boyle, who was identified as an associate of Bernard Mannes Baruch. financier and Democrat, but denied she held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded man in Wall Street"). Arthur William Cutten, once Chicago's best known bull. Marquis de San Miguel. Herbert L. Dillon of Eastman, Dillon &; Co. Stnyvesant Fish. Bertha, Joseph and Paolino Gerli (silk). Thomas Montgomery Howell, Chicago grain operator, who last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear Hunt (Cont'd) | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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