Word: brokering
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...Yankee-panky of his neighbors in the days that followed the Civil War. "He's just a man," somebody sobs, "who loves his family and his home." Matter of fact, as Robert Wagner plays the part with soft suburban face, the hero could pass for a rising young broker. As for all that gunplay, it seems to have been nothing more than James & Co.'s old-fashioned interpretation of the Personalized Approach...
...house, has never put out a market letter for its customers. Virtually every other firm puts out at least a weekly or bimonthly letter, considers it as vital to business as a scratch sheet is to a race track. "When a speculator walks into our office," says one big broker, "he wants a copy of the market letter. If we don't have one, he'll march right across the hall to another brokerage office that does...
Character, intelligence, and a capacity for hard work are more important than connections for the prospective broker or investment banker, noted Thomas B. Gannett '35, partner of Hornblower and Weeks, Boston investment firm...
...broker must know more about the meeds of his clients that the client knows," he noted. "One of the most rewarding factors is the caliber of people you run into," he added...
...Circuit Broker. In Sheffield, England, Lewis Monfredi got a $90 electric bill, learned why after he turned off his house's main switch in disgust, also blacked out a row of 23 newly installed street lights...