Word: broker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese-many of them housewives, factory workers and shopkeepers-own stocks. An average trading day on the Tokyo Exchange sees no fewer than 100 million shares of stock change hands. The trail blazer in this phenomenal growth of stock ownership is a jovial, pipe-chewing kabuya (securities broker) named Tsunao Okumura, who has fought public apathy, occupation forces, and the power of Kabutocho, Japan's Wall Street, to educate the Japanese public in the benefits of owning stocks...
...value, can be tax-valued at fractional catalogue prices to escape staggering death duties, and are often even more valuable than stocks as a hedge against worldwide inflation. In addition, stamps are easily transported from country to country, and, if need be, can be quickly disposed of. Wall Street Broker Alfred Caspary's 50,000 stamps were sold beginning in 1955 for $2,900,000, and represented a quarter of the value of his estate. The collection of Swiss Tobacco Magnate Maurice Burrus, from which the rare 2? Hawaiian came, will probably realize $8,000,000 when...
...office in rural Maidenhead, Insurance Broker John Dobbin opened his London Times last week, scanned the big story from Moscow, and reached apprehensively for a list of his clients. He breathed a sigh of relief. Of the ten British and U.S. diplomats who had been declared persona non grata by the Soviet government, none had insured his stay in Moscow with J. N. Dobbin...
Piero (Alain Delon), for example, a young stock broker, is hardly a "spontaneous" character, as the Brattle's blurb states. Whenever we see him, he is putting on a show--in the Stock Exchange, in his car, in his office. He might be watching himself in a mirror...
...79th birthday. > Told his midweek press conference that he was "not hopeful" about the prospects for a nuclear test ban agreement with Russia. > Let it be known that he had rented his new seven-bedroom ranch house on Rattlesnake Mountain for the summer to A. Dana Hodgdon, a Washington broker, for a reported $1,000 a month. > Appointed his sometime Harvard classmate, Benjamin A. Smith II, to be chairman of the U.S. delegation at next month's North Pacific Fisheries Conference (U.S., Canada, Japan). Smith was the friend whom Kennedy picked to hold his old Senate seat...