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National's stock, originally issued at $40 a share, had been selling at around $200 a share until last week. Then Broker James M. Johnston, representing an undisclosed customer, suddenly offered $280 a share. For $2.9 million he reportedly snared 80% of National's stock. A few days later, the directors eased President J. Frank White up into the board chairmanship and elected a new president, Barnum L. Colton, who was brought over from the National Savings and Trust Co. There he had been a vice president and had handled the United Mine Workers' deposits, chiefly...
...Under the old 75% rule, an investor with $1,000 could buy $1,333 worth of stock, borrowing the balance from his broker at 21/2% to 4H%. Under the new rule, his $1,000 could buy $2,000 worth of stock...
...profitable as the beef on which Latinos concentrated. Returning with a B.S. in 1917, Susaeta brought several head along with him. He later stocked a ranch of his own with los Holsteinos, began promoting them far & wide. Ultimately he gave up as a breeder, decided to become a broker...
...Bites Dog. The ringleaders in the idea were not noted for their piety. Richard D. Hilliard, for instance, was a hard-living investment broker who had come through 568 days of combat duty at such hotspots as Salerno and Anzio. Owsley Brown, board chairman of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp., said he would put up $15,000 for a church, provided it was matched by other contributions. Almost overnight they had $30,000, and used some of it to buy an old Negro Baptist church down by the river. Then they sent a delegation to the Episcopal bishop of Kentucky...
...What she found out ran in Liberty magazine, then owned by her father and Cousin Bertie McCormick, as a series on how to get a job. She was married twice in her 20s, to James Simpson Jr., son of a onetime board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., and to Broker-Aviator Joseph W. Brooks, and divorced them...