Word: broker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bidwell, known to Wall Street friends as "Biddy," is a shy, much-respected Lehigh graduate who came to the Street shortly before the 1929 crash, bought his Exchange seat in 1941, and has since prospered as an independent floor broker. Unlike most men with large incomes, he filled out his own tax returns...
President Kennedy sent a telegram to the Roosevelt Day Dinner, praising the A.D.A. as a "broker of ideas." In many periods of our history," the telegram said, "liberals have brought to bear on political problems special gifts of insight and imagination...
...business has been a risk. There are two approaches. Either you play it very shrewd and sit back safely, or you do what amuses you." Born in Bucharest of a French father and a British mother, Houseman was educated in France and England, and worked as a London grain broker before moving to New York and his first area of amusement: Broadway...
...fallen and sharp young men in Brown Tweed Suits thrive on perpetual opportunity. Compared with the C.O.D. wooing of baseball players, or even with the corporate kidnaping of business executives, the art of hiring professors is so subtle, so roundabout, that it requires the delicacy of a Chinese marriage broker...
...York Stock Exchange added a warning of its own. In all cases, said a Big Board circular last week, a broker should think long and hard before becoming a director of a company whose stock he had underwritten, or before accepting options to buy the company's stock at a price likely to run below subsequent market prices. Such activities, noted the New York Stock Exchange statement dryly, were apt to place a firm "in the position of being unable to defend its actions from charges of manipulation...