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Word: brokering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Licia Albanese, 31, plump, handsome Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Joseph A. Gimma, 37, Wall Street stock broker, also from her native Bari, Italy (although they met in Manhattan in 1940); both for the first time; in Manhasset, L.I. The bride confessed that she was heeding the marriage-v.-career advice of an ex-opera star friend: "Our art is ... only temporary. All of a sudden one day it will be gone, and then you'll be sorry you didn't marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...broker of all these deals is a man named Smith Davis. A complete record of his tradings is not available, for a basic Davis credo is "my business is mystery." His trick is to bring together publishers who usually don't speak to each other on their editorial pages. He has sold conservative papers to liberals and liberal papers to conservatives, with a cheerful irreverence for editorial principles-except when they can be calculated as part of a paper's balance sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Salesman | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Citizen Forrestal, ex-Wall Street broker, took no credit away from the admirals who occupy key planning and combat jobs, the other Academy men who season the Navy and hold its most important fighting commands. But his account of how the present fleet came into being and how it is run was one of civilian accomplishment-and the final answer to those Governments who miscalculated the willingness of the U.S. to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Might of the Citizens | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...They Lynch Up North. . . ." The Winds of Fear is better, as well as more timely, than most current best-selling novels. Its faults are the usual ones of a novel of its kind: in his worthy effort to be scrupulously just, Author Carter often sounds more like an honest broker than an imaginative novelist. Like most just men he sounds best when he lets go-as when Editor Mabry bellows: "They lynch up north, and a damn sight more people than we do. Only they call them race riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Rivers | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

Fresh cash came into the market from bondholders, who were also shifting their money into common stocks. At high prices, bond yields are close to record lows. Barren's noted that the ten "highest grade bonds" on its index paid only 2.6% interest. Any broker could rattle off a string of common stocks paying upwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS & FINANCE,WALL STREET: The Old Fever | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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