Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly concluded with the city when another round opened in the exchange's bout with Washington over brokerage commissions. The Securities and Exchange Commission issued strong "recommendation" that the Big Board modify its commission structure to provide "volume discounts" for large transactions by mid-September. Currently, the broker's fee in a 1,000-share transaction is ten times that of a 100-share deal, even though the cost of executing the orders is the same...
...Montgomery Walsh, 45, of Washington, D.C., spends part of her day as a senior partner at the investment firm of Ferris & Co., spends the rest in "yours, mine and ours" domesticity with four sons from her first marriage, seven more children who arrived with her second husband, Real Estate Broker Thomas B. Walsh, and a three-year-old son since born to them. Her salary is $200,000 a year...
...last suspicious Derby, albeit a more picturesque one, was run in 1933, when the jockeys on the two leading horses--Broker's Tip and Head Play--engaged in a vicious battle in the stretch, pulling at each other's reins and whipping each other. Broker's Tip finished first and the stewards allowed the race to stand. He never won another race...
...been reaching ever since he arrived in California with $30 in his pocket in the late '30s. He wrote radio-and screenplays ("I'm a lot prouder of some of the mortgages I've written," he says), then took on an advertising job for a mortgage broker. Later, when he moved into S&Ls, Lytton quickly proved himself a master of theatrical dazzle as he wooed savings accounts. He held art auctions and book fairs, gave away coffee and cake, loaded his sumptuous offices with endless tables of free gifts for new customers. When Washington stopped...
...world markets with bigger, more efficient companies. Wilson's detractors are not so sure. And they have been particularly suspicious of the Industrial Reorganization Corporation, a quasi-governmental group that has produced more than its share of bickering in its role as Britain's official corporate marriage broker...