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...Pont $5,000 Lammot du Pont 5,000 Edward F. Hutton (General Foods) 5,000 Sewell Lee Avery (Montgomery Ward) 5,000 George Monroe Moffett (Corn Products) 5,000 Rufus Lenoir Patterson 2nd (American Machine & Foundry) 5,000 Samuel Bayard Colgate (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) 5,000 Robert Sterling Clark (broker) . . 4,900 Archibald M. L. du Pont 2,500 Hal Roach (cinema comedies) . . 2,500 William Lockhart Clayton (cotton broker) 1,000 Renée W. Baruch (daughter) . . . 100 Mrs. Clarence Mackay...
...shadchen himself, Rabbi Wolf explained why a marriage broker is useful: ''When you meet a girl on the street or in the subway, all you see is the veneer, the varnish. Now the marriage broker investigates. He looks up the money part of the woman and investigates the man's past, his relations and his standing. The proper way to size up a person is to see if he has business with a bank. If he doesn't deal with a bank, he's no good...
Engaged, Renee Wilcox Baruch, younger daughter of Bernard Mannes Baruch, and Henry Robert Samstag, Manhattan broker...
Meantime Baiata was having trouble with the second $25,000 instalment. A onetime broker's clerk who was in desperate need of a new set of lower false teeth was outfitted from Boston Dentists and set up as W. W. Ehlers & Co., Investment Brokers. It was his job, through a miraculous system of checks and drafts, to use funds from the Lincoln treasury to pay for the Lincoln company. But the ring-around-the-rosy scheme went askew in St. Paul, where a bank refused to honor Ehlers' signature. President Lindquist scurried up to St. Paul to see his wife...
...Many a broker feels that retrenchment, by eliminating a large amount of direct brokerage advertising, is one good reason for the decline in security trading. Yet the New York Stock Exchange gets more free publicity than any other business institution in the land. Every big newspaper in the land devotes pages to daily stock-.market news and quotations. But the Exchange also gets more space in the Congressional Record than any other business institution. Therefore last week its Governors came to an unprecedented decision: the Stock Exchange itself would drum up business...