Word: broker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, like young Lochinvar, Senator Hiram Johnson, namesake but not relative of Magnavox, has ridden out from the West. As his steed he has chosen Frank H. Hitchcock--"astute broker of delegates" and conductor for Taft in 1908, for Hughes in 1916, and for Leonard Wood in 1920. Mr. Hitchcock's greatest strength lies, so it is whispered, in his control over southern delegates. But in the unusual task of pledging these "rotten horough" representatives to Johnson, the progressive candidate, Mr. Hitchcock will meet the redoubtable Mr. C. Bascem Slemp, who, although he has not been appointed campaign manager, presumably...
...delegates, and there should be a keen duel between him and C. Bascom Slemp for the delegations from the South? although there will not be so much to quarrel over since the Southern delegations have been cut (TIME, Sept. 24). Not in idle fun was he called an "astute broker of delegates...
...thought. One declared its belief that the turn had come, and that pessimistic predictions regarding 1924 had been overdone. The other, bearish to begin with, continued in that frame of mind; it viewed with cynical suspicion the remarkable coincidence of the extra Steel dividend, Judge Gary's cheerful prophecies, Broker Livermore's equally cheerful pronouncement, the upward rush in the price of the four present leading speculative stocks...
...politician set out to abuse one another, who would win? Henry Ford and John W. Weeks attempted a practical solution of this question. There is little doubt that Henry Ford won. But the question is not answered. Mr. Ford accused Secretary Weeks of being "a Boston bond broker, in politics for a pastime." Others were outspoken in declaring that Mr. Ford's abuse was political?with the sole object of promoting Henry Ford as a Presidential candidate in 1924. The whole matter rose out of Muscle Shoals. During the War the Government built a dam at Muscle Shoals...
Born on a New Hampshire farm, Weeks went abruptly from school-teaching to Annapolis at the age of 16. After some service on the high seas he entered business in Boston and soon became a broker (Hornblower and Weeks), then a financier. During Senator Harding's campaign. Senator Weeks gave "sound advice...