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Special Service. During the 1948 campaign, as Mayock told it last week, he promised to raise $30,000 for the pinched Democratic Party purse. His method of doing so was to get a tax case fixed. A client of his named Louis Markus knew an insurance broker named William Solomon, and Solomon knew a prosperous New York chemical manufacturer named William S. Lasdon, who had a tax problem with an estimated $1,500,000 at stake. Expensive lawyers, including a former assistant commissioner of internal revenue, had been unable to get anything done at the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Through...
...President Keith Funston, a Wall Street newcomer: a way of selling stock to small investors on the installment plan. Under Funston's plan, a small investor who wants to buy one share of stock may do so by making a small monthly payment (minimum: about $40) to his broker. The money will be turned over to a bank, which will pool it with funds of other investors, buying the stock and crediting the investor with whatever fraction of a share his payment represents. Funston thinks the plan will appeal to small investors for two reasons: 1) it will enable...
...bundle actually contained the body of Lincoln Williams, handsome Negro bartender of the Last Chance Saloon, punctured by two .45 slugs fired at close range. The lady in the car-and she obviously was a lady-was Mrs. Treadway, the richest woman in town. Captain Sheffield, respectable broker and her son-in-law, sat beside...
...Book. A young investment broker named William Baker helped ease the blow of Shirley's divorce. He had met the Gardners during a Nantucket vacation, and when he heard of the divorce, began calling on Shirley. Within four months they were married, although Baker was no longer a broker but a corporal in the U.S. Army. When Tomorrow the World closed, Shirley camp-followed her husband through the South until 1945, then returned to Manhattan for her first musical, Hollywood Pinafore, in which she played the part of a gossip columnist called Louhedda Hopsons. During the war years, Shirley...
Married. Joan Douglas Dillon, 18, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to France Clarence Douglas Dillon; and James Brady Moseley, 22, Harvard junior and son of a Manhattan broker; in Paris. After civil and religious ceremonies, some 600 guests attended a Mass celebrated in the Madeleine by the Rev. Pierre Couturier, known as "the Picasso Priest," for his patronage of modern French religious...