Word: broker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a Baltimore store, Thomas Fortune Ryan went to work as an errand-boy for $3 a week; with William Collins Whitney he was a broker in Wall Street; with King Leopold II of Belgium he developed the diamond fields of the Congo Free State; and with a fortune estimated between one and five hundred million dollars, last week, he died...
Engaged. Allen A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of famed Manhattan financier Thomas Fortune Ryan (public utilities, Congo diamonds, railways, coal, tobacco, onetime officer or director in more than 30 corporations), to Janet Newbold of Washington...
...sporting articles for the Hudson Despatch; he lived with onetime editor of the New York Mirror Phil Payne who a year ago disappeared into the ocean with the airplane Old Glory. After the War he became an agent for a California fruit company. Now he is an independent food broker; a seedy little Irishman, his office in Manhattan is decorated with labelled cans and a print of The Reaper; it has this sign upon the door...
Also last week Hero Lindbergh was taken for a ride above Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, in a Loening amphibian plane piloted by Miss Eleanor Hoyt, 16-year-old daughter of Broker Richard R. Hoyt...
...Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities. When her bond-broking husband (Walter Connolly) blankets himself with another lady, the wife follows, gnashing threats of duty. All the forces of law and decency seem allied with the dreadful spouse; even the bond-broker's son helps persuade him to leave the love who does not nag and return to domesticity...