Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brenda Frazier at 17 is shapely, wide-eyed, with a striking shoulder length of blue black hair. Her grandfathers were a Chicago grain broker named Frank Pierce Frazier and Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, a Canadian capitalist who used to manage the Bank of Montreal and whose Lady is social matriarch of Nassau. At eleven, she struck the Sunday supplements as the centre of a scandalous financial row between her divorced parents, each of whom sought to prove the other unfit to be her custodian. Fight and notoriety continued until her father died...
Born. To C. (for Clarence) Elmer Taylor, 44, insurance broker and American Legionnaire, and his wife: a son, their first child; in Chicago. When Elmer Taylor got lost in a parade during the Legion's 1933 Chicago convention, the gathering took as its slogan, watchword, wisecrack and talisman the cry: "Where's Elmer?" Since then Legionnaires often address each other as Elmer. Name of the Taylors' son: Robert Frank...
...Broker Joseph Sisto, debonair son of Italian immigrants, spoke no English until he was ten, worked his way through high school and Wall Street to found his own firm in 1922. His first suspension was the result of overexpansion nipped by depression. Broker Sisto, good friend of Benito Mussolini, was in Italy visiting his many clients there when the crash came. He sped home, quickly arranged to pay his creditors 50? on the dollar, made up the balance with shares in Sisto Financial Corp., his personal investment trust...
...fine spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly publishing scheme: limited editions. "Wait here for me," said Straus. A few minutes later he reappeared, handed Macy a fistful of checks. They were for $1,000 each. To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls...
...London, the Almost Modern Order of Purchasers, a 17-year-old society whose 250 members are men "of good repute, who have made a darned stupid mistake or been badly done," met for its semi-annual dinner. Newest member: a patriotic stock-broker who was so carried away during the European crisis that he enlisted simultaneously in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force...