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Last week the council finally handed down a decision on this problem, based on the sale of a single share of timber stock, worth $172. Said the council: since the broker knew that Lippmann, Rosenthal had put the stock on the market, the sale was illegal; the stock must be returned to its original owner. At the news, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange stopped issuing quotations and thus, in effect, stopped all trading. With thousands of similar stock titles now up in the air (most U.S.-held Dutch securities have clear title), the exchange would not accept responsibility for any further...
...majority and elected twelve Eisenhower men to go to Chicago. Then they formally instructed the delegation to vote for Ike-a break with the custom of sending officially uncommitted delegations. Finally, they chose Eisenhower's state campaign manager-Edward G. Janeway, a onetime Wall Street broker-as Vermont's national committeeman. It was the first time in memory that the job did not go to a lifetime Vermonter...
When the U.S. Government began stockpiling Egyptian cotton 15 months ago, it looked to a Senate investigating committee as if one Loutfy Mansour, a broker for an Alexandria firm, had an inside track. Out of some $70 million worth bought by the U.S., the committee was told last week, Mansour got a $37 million share...
...third of his income from commission on the transactions. In the process, Mrs. Eaves's holdings shrank to $31,700. Last week the SEC ruled that the National Association of Securities Dealers was justified in expelling R. H. Johnson & Co. from membership, revoking Salesman Sharpe's broker registration and suspending the registration of two of the firm's Boston partners for one year. It was the third time in six years that the firm had been disciplined for unethical practices...