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Absurdly simple! One either rings up one's broker or steps round to the Royal Exchange itself. Ignoring that justly celebrated mural Phoenicians Bartering with the Ancient Britons in Cornwall, one presses straight on and finds a board where election futures were quoted, last week...
Suppose that one considered 84 an attractive buy in Liberals. Then by having one's broker "place" ?1 ($4.86) at that figure one would get exactly one's money back if the Liberals win 84 seats, and would receive an additional pound for every seat they win above that number. Inversely, if one sells Liberals at 80, and if only 70 candidates of that party are returned to the House, one pockets a crisp "tenner" ($48.60). To guess wrong in either buying or selling is to lose a pound a seat...
Engaged. Hamilton Webster Thayer, of Hopedale, Mass., son of Judge Webster Thayer of Worcester, Mass., who gave the Sacco-Vanzetti decision; to Miss Elizabeth Wood of Manhattan, niece of famed Boston Broker Henry Hornblower (Hornblower & Weeks...
Every Manhattan news organ has now noticed this divorce broker. The small-town press has ballyhooed him in syndicated feature stories. Tabloid editors have gleefully plastered up headlines to the effect that Arturo del Toro is the "enemy of Cupid, the "king of divorce," the "boss of the Border bright lights...
...sentiment was strongly against the speculator. Since, however, the very Senators and Representatives who were most inclined to view Wall Street as the heart of the money octopus also regarded the Federal Reserve System as at least a tentacle of the same monster, the banker was scolded while the broker was flayed...