Word: broker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Whitney, ex-New York Stock Exchange president, now an industrial sales broker in Boston, on parole from Sing Sing, asked permission of the Massachusetts parole board to set up a frozen-fruit business in Florida...
Divorced. By Lana Turner, 23, well-knit sweater girl: Stephen Crane, 28, Los Angeles broker; after three years of marriage, for each the second, one child; in Los Angeles. Said she: Crane's quarreling kept her nervously unraveled...
...wasn't as easy as all that to get the bells to Cambridge. When they reached the shores of America in 1932, the customs office intercepted them. The Harvard Business office know nothing about them when a call came from the customs broker, so they advised the officials to have them stored. This decision was hastily retracted, however, when the business office discovered that it would cost $400 oven to have them moved...
...same deal, Pulliam got the other Shaffer paper, the Muncie Star (circ. 24,821). Indianapolis buzzed anew with reports that Marshall Field's bank roll was behind Publisher Pulliam. It was not. Big, beaming Smith Davis, Cleveland newspaper broker, had arranged and so hidden the deal that no one had seriously suspected Pulliam...
...Lord will keep His arm around me," said a Southern oil-lease broker a while back, "I'll produce oil in Georgia." Up to last week, Georgia was not yet an oil state-but it had begun to look as if the Lord had His arm around the whole southeastern U.S. Conservative oilmen are still talking conservatively, but even they admit that the Southeast is now enjoying the biggest oil-land boom since the 1930s...