Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William H. Haskell, who was put out of his job by the scandalized New York Stock Exchange for publicly declaring that he was "in the gambling business" (TIME, Jan. 20), was back in the business this week. Without explaining itself, the Exchange quietly reinstated him as a customers' broker, effective a month to the day after he had been fired by E. F. Hutton & Co. When it fired him, Hutton paid Haskell a month's salary. Haskell had had a lot of deserved embarrassment-and a month's vacation...
...people knew about Young's campaign to get control of the Central until it was well under way. A few months ago he had started buying up Central stock through a broker. A fortnight ago the news came out that Bob Young had spent $2,500,000 for 162,500 shares. Against the number of shares outstanding, some 6,447,412, this seemed a piddling amount...
...Manhattan court last week Gambler Alvin Paris was on trial for attempting to fix a professional football game (he was later convicted). First prospective juror was William H. Haskell, a customers' broker for E. F. Hutton & Co. Haskell claimed he could not be impartial in a gambler's trial because: "I'm in the gambling business myself...
Sumner T. Pike, 55-year-qld businessman and broker, who ran away from his Maine home, went to sea, sold oil industry equipment in Texas, joined Boston's Stone & Webster, later Wall Street's Case, Pomeroy & Co., served as a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He resigned from SEC last March with a note to Harry Truman: "I am getting stale...
...Last week Publisher Pulliam, a crew-cropped six-footer, pulled his biggest deal of all. In bustling Phoenix (Ariz.) he bought the Republic (circ. 56,810) and Gazette (33,494), a money-making mo- nopoly. Price: $4.000,000 cash. Agent: burly Smith Davis, newspaper broker who is usually around when sizable papers change hands (TIME, April...