Word: broker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still the wife of London Ship-Broker Ernest Simpson, although she has obtained a decree nisi of divorce scheduled to become final on April 27. She first met Mr. Simpson, then married to a previous wife, at the home of a Mrs. Jacques Raffray of Manhattan. Last week Mrs. Raffray arrived in England and was met by Mr. Simpson. They traveled up to London in the same railway compartment, separated on the platform of Waterloo Station, ran out by separate doors, jumped into the same taxi, curled up together on the floor to escape the notice of reporters. When exhorted...
...weapons she requires direct from the rapacious West. In Nanking, placing the tips of their fingers calmly together, Chinese statesmen opined to fascinated white correspondents that it would surely be the part of wisdom for European nations, now so petulantly drifting into another War and with Munitions Broker Sir Basil Zaharoff dead, to buy each other off rather than blunder into the much greater expense of fighting...
...pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house. The news he brings gets him the friendship of Insurance Broker John Julius Angerstein (Sir Guy Standing), a foothold in the ring of marine underwriters...
...morning two years ago, a Packard roadster with the top down started from San Mateo, Calif, for a weekend trip to Aptos. At the car's wheel was its owner, big, blond Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, a star Stanford foot baller ten years ago, now a San Francisco broker. Beside him sat his guest, pert, black-eyed Mrs. Audrey McCann. In the rumble were their spouses-John Mc Cann, of San Francisco's McCann Furniture Co. family, and Claire Hoffman, daughter of San Francisco's famed banker Amadeo Giannini...
Vague though the talk of "hot money" control was last week, brokers at home and abroad gave it the darkest interpretation. In London, where "hot money" is called "funk money" and any interference with international trading is deplored, a thoughtful broker declared: "It appears that Mr. Roosevelt once more is striving to achieve a reputable objective without regard to its effect on the world situation." In Wall Street a feeble attempt was made to brush the problem aside on the ground that part of what appeared to be foreign investment was in fact buying by U. S. citizens through foreign...