Word: broker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chunky, spectacled Frank Bielaski, an ex-Wall Street broker turned Government secret agent, had handled many cases for OSS during the war. One midnight, tracing down the document quoted in Amerasia, Bielaski and four aides let themselves into a dark, empty building at 225 Fifth Avenue. They took an elevator to the eleventh floor and there, by what Bielaski later called "deceit and subterfuge," entered Amerasia's office. Once inside, they began a careful inspection. They found one room fitted out with photocopy equipment, a desk in another room spread with copies of Government documents. Behind a door were...
...buyers who think that the market is something like a horse race and that it's no trick to pick the winner. The public last week was not yet in the market, but it was beginning to take an increasing interest in the form sheet. Around the nation, brokers' offices were filling up with excited newcomers wanting to know what was being bought by the mysterious and nebulous group of big speculators known as "they," so that the little fellows could buy some of the same.* And many young investors who had stayed out of the market because...
Most Atlantans (as the Constitution calls them) and Atlantians (as the Journal calls them) were surprised at the merger; Atlanta Broker Richard W. Courts had kept the negotiations hush-hush by using code symbols instead of names. But they should not have been too surprised. In the ten years since spry old ex-Governor Cox took over the Journal, it has moved from neck & neck in circulation and advertising to undisputed first place in circulation, revenue and newspaper enterprise...
Died. Daniel Frisch, 52, Palestine-born president of the Zionist Organization of America and a General Zionist world leader; after an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A retired investment broker and onetime executive of an Indianapolis salvage firm, Frisch campaigned for strong ties between the U.S. and Israel...
...formal opening of the now dormitory, the gift of Boston broker John Farwell Moors '83, took place December 11 in a ceremony also honoring the donor's 50 years as a Radcliffe trustee...