Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer would involve Government agencies, Congressmen, Senators and other bigwigs. He went to Chicago to probe by himself. By last week one speculator, other than General Foods and Dan Rice, had been identified: tall, ministerial Plane-Builder Glenn L. Martin. The Department of Agriculture charged that he and his broker had violated a Government regulation that limits the amount of rye futures an individual may trade daily to 2,000,000 bushels. Glenn Martin's broker had traded 3,000,000 bushels...
...from Adolf. Vansittart is aware of his own overstatement. He prefaces his collection of ancient opinions of the ancient Germans with this broker's disclaimer: "Biology has nothing to do with the case ... by nothing more than literary coincidence were ancient Latin and Greek writers saying exactly the same things about the Germans as all Europe is saying today. ... I am [content] to start our abhorrence of Germany and the Germans from Friedrich, or Wilhelm, but not from Adolf...
Early last year Louise Peete, now middleaged, full-bosomed, and addicted to strange hats, began keeping house in swank Pacific Palisades for mentally-ailing Arthur C. Logan, and his real-estate-broker wife, Margaret. Tremulously, she confided her past to the Logans. Far from firing her, they took her to their hearts. When she married a 67-year-old bank messenger named Lee Borden Jud son, they insisted that she bring him into the family circle...
...Said one broker: "VE day won't be a shock to the market. It will be just a mild surprise...
Despite his distaste for the limelight, Jules Stein got his name in the newspapers twice last week. In Manhattan, he took a firmer grip on Broadway by buying out Leland Hayward, play broker and actor's agent. In San Diego, he was charged in a civil suit with violating the antitrust laws...