Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of helping Adolf Hitler last week by emerging as an "honest broker" to try to sell Britain and France a Nazi Peace (see p. 34), Premier Benito Mussolini left the Führer to speak exclusively for himself, plunged into strictly Italian (and peaceful) activities. Fascist newsorgans politely termed Herr Hitler's vague terms as so "constructive, realistic" that they ought to be accepted, but there was little conviction that they would be accepted, even if understood...
...months later Dodge stockholders had assented to the deal and the contract was signed. Next morning Broker Dillon dropped in to see Motorman Chrysler at his office on Madison Avenue to find out when Chrysler would begin operating Dodge. "Hell, Clarence," replied Walter, "our boys moved in last night...
...repeal of the arms embargo. But the net result of all this switching back & forth between war & peace got the market nowhere. One favorite pastime was restless switching from one fancied war baby to another: Wall Street Journal's, Broad Street Gossip Column noted that Sept. 26 one broker got 60% of his commissions from switches, that one customer had switched 15 times in the last two weeks without getting anywhere...
...their inheritance. All of them have made careers for themselves. Most notable is John W., who made a bigger fortune than his father, is now Under Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. Dr. Frederick is a professor at Duke University Medical School; Alex is a leading Winston-Salem stock broker; James is head of Hanes Hosiery Mills Co., largest U. S. women's seamless silk hosiery knitting plant; Ralph is head of a dye and finishing business which he founded...
...Anderson Galleries staff. Mr. Kennerley did a good job of selling the Bishop books. But last year Widow Bishop and Friend Nixon, summering together in Paris, up and sold the Galleries for a mere $175,000 to Milton B. Logan, onetime real-estate agent, and Insurance Broker John T. Geery...