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...Public Be Damned." What can insurance companies do about the problem? Segal had a suggestion: "Where a welfare fund has been wrongly used ... it is not only the union leader and the employer representative who are at fault. The insurance company and insurance agent or broker involved are also responsible . . . The insurance industry must police itself. If it does not do this effectively, there will inevitably be restrictive legislation. The elimination of excessive commissions, needless service fees and so-called 'administration fees' would automatically eliminate those who are in this field simply to exploit it with...
Family: While on duty at Schofield Barracks in 1932, married Maude Mc-Keever, daughter of a sugar broker on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Children: Richard, an Air Force Reserve pilot; Nathan Alexander, a promising pianist; Olivia, now at Holton-Arms Junior College in Washington. General Twining's elder brother, Robert, Annapolis, 1916, is a retired captain; his younger brother, Major General Merrill Twining, Annapolis, 1923, is deputy chief of staff of U.S. Marine Corps...
...attract small investors and money that is now going into savings accounts, the New York Stock Exchange last week began selling stocks on a monthly (or quarterly) buy-on-your-budget basis. Under the plan, promoted by Exchange President Keith Funston, the investor signs up to pay his broker a definite sum (from $40 to $999) every month or every quarter. The customer is credited with as many shares and fractions of shares as his money can buy (less the regular commission of up to 6%). Stockholders will earn dividends even on their fractions of shares, but will have voting...
Clark, now graduate president of the Varsity Club, is a member of the Overseer's Committees for the College and the Departments of Military, Naval, and Air Science. He is a Boston investment broker, a partner in the firm of H. C. Wainwright...
When bankers are asked about requirements for their profession, they are rumored to reply; "A successful banker is composed of about one-fifth accountant, two-fifths lawyer, three-fifths--double size. any smaller person may be a pawn broker or a promoter, but not a banker." This is more than self-flattery; for it indicates the high standards placed on the successful banker...