Word: brokering
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...which spent much of their space plugging the Senator's political interests, had found the going rough, even before his death in 1951. Since then, they have been further battered in a fight for control between two management factions. While the battle dragged on in court, Manhattan Newspaper Broker Vincent J. Manno (TIME, Sept. 7, 1953) persuaded the stockholders to forget their differences and sell out to Stauffer, who promised that "general policies and personnel will undergo little change...
...turned out, Ruppar may have been guilty of incredibly bad judgment, but not of tipping off the board's decision. He had bought his stock on the morning of Aug. 3, a day after the leak, when Northeast stock was already rising fast, on a tip from a broker friend. Ruppar got 500 shares at 10½, later picked up another 500 at around 12. After holding the stock for several days, he sold in the middle of a profit-taking drop, actually lost an estimated $1,600 on the deal. That left...
...orchestra brought along one of its trustees, Boston Insurance Broker Michael T. Kelleher. Before the concert began last week in the 1,500-seat Savoy Theater, Mike Kelleher drew cheers when he spoke of his father who had emigrated to the U.S. from County Cork. Then the orchestra set its gesture to music, opened its program with U.S. Composer Leroy Anderson's Irish Suite, a collection of slick arrangements of Irish tunes...
...third in '29. But while the apex of the pyramid has shriveled, the middle has filled out: there are now 30.6 million families with personal incomes of $4,000 or over who account for a luxury income of $41.4 billion. In the words of a Los Angeles broker: "Before World War II there were at least 50 really big yachts here. Today there are only 15 left, but there are at least 3,500 smaller boats...
Last week, in answer to the old song, Florida Real Estate Broker James Stuart Robertson, 59, showed how even a non-Irishman could own Killarney. His formula: after the owner dies and the tax collectors haunt his heirs, step in with enough green dollars and a promise never to spoil the scenery...