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Thereupon stock traders, freed from fear of the Federal Reserve Board, whooped gladly and put on a brisk weekend rally. Headlined the New York Times: WASHINGTON WILL NOT APPLY BRAKES TO BOOM IN STOCKS; ECCLES CALLS IT HEALTHFUL. Said one smart broker, reading Governor Eccles' statement: "Best market letter in years!" Traders drew only one moral: the Administration's "breathing spell" for business is to be followed by a breathing spell for the Stock Exchange...
...trying to consummate a deal on Ethiopia shrewd French Premier Pierre ("Honest Broker") Laval began with sub rosa dickering which the British Government would not acknowledge, progressed by getting the League to give Britain and France a mandate to make the deal respectable (TIME, Nov. 11) and last week was having pressure exerted at Addis Ababa. For the first time Ethiopian statesmen close to the Emperor discussed openly with correspondents this hypothesis: Suppose Emperor Haile Selassie should keep his rich native Province of Harrar but give up the Province of Ogaden in which the original Ualual Incident occurred, the fruitful...
Thus dickering and dealing which continue to take place physically outside the Palace of the Nations were technically brought "within the framework of the League," although only two League States are to go on trying to make "The Deal" with Italy. In Pierre ("Honest Broker") Laval's entourage indignation was expressed that Socialist and anti-Fascist officials in France have been doing their best to wreck "The Deal" and embarrass His Majesty's Government by premature disclosures. For M. Laval, it was said, "From now on he will deny every disclosure! Absolute secrecy at this stage is imperative...
...Honest Broker" between Britain and Italy, French Premier Pierre Laval has based all his efforts upon convincing His Majesty's Government that the Ethiopian war is no world-shaking matter on which the League's future or Britain's depends but a mere affair of "some localized area." Last week the appearance of this phrase in a speech by Squire Baldwin was a leading development. Though some excited citizens still put the issue to themselves in terms of the necessity of preserving Ethiopian independence at all costs, many a British citizen was commencing to ask himself last...
...brokers ever achieve a public reputation, good or bad. One broker who has escaped the anonymity of his calling is Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, head of the New York Stock Exchange firm that bears his name. He is the one man on the Floor whom visitors in the Stock Exchange gallery know by name, ask to have pointed out at Post No. 12, where he has been a specialist in Radio Corp. since that stock was listed in 1924. Mike Meehan's fame rests squarely on the fact that he ran the great pools that bulled Radio stock...