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Beware the Bankerwock, my son! The teeth that bite, the claws that snatch! Beware the Broker bird and shun The fumious Stockexsnatch...
Mainbocher ("Main" to his friends). was born in Chicago and edited Paris Vogue. Five years ago he resigned to go into business for himself, reputedly with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert Miller (daughter of Broker J. S. Bache), Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Vallambrosa. Mainbocher, youngest of the currently prominent houses, turns out chic and tasteful gowns in a chic and severe salon on Avenue George...
Fresh from the hands of Ferdinand Pecora and his young legalites, the original bill was a dogmatic double decalog for brokers, bankers and businessmen. The bill finally enacted still bristled with penalties, liabilities and thou-shalt-nots, but many of its cutting edges had been removed. No longer is a banker both a broker and dealer by definition. No longer is a bank forbidden to loan on sound but unlisted local securities. The odd-lot business and arbitrage are not annihilated by loose language. Even the much disputed margin requirements (45% for a starter) may be altered by the Federal...
...Plough, whose Plough Inc. makes 240,000,000 aspirin tablets a year and Memphis a big U. S. aspirin centre. Snuff is ruddy-faced Martin J. Condon's line, and his American Snuff Co. is one of the world's three largest. Another big cotton broker is J. P. Norfleet. And the town's dry goods tycoon is William R. King of William R. Moore Dry Goods...
...paper maker and a paper broker gave a tea in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for Author Hervey Allen. Occasion: Sale of the 400,000th copy of his Anthony Adverse. Reason: 400,000 copies equal 952,000 Ib. of paper...