Word: brokering
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...Allard with Cadillac engine was the combination that Erwin Goldschmidt was counting on. It got him off well. During the first lap, 34-year-old Driver Goldschmidt, a prosperous Manhattan insurance broker, worked up from his 26th-place starting position to third...
...June when 17-year-old Topper, chairman of Putney's student council, graduated near the top of his class. This summer, Libby toured Europe. Topper went to California with Stephen Wasserman, a classmate, to work in one of the mines owned by Stephen's father (wealthy Manhattan Broker William Stix Wasserman) and to do some mountain climbing...
...attitude toward Asian Communism. Said he: "I understand that our recognition of [the Chinese Communist] government has conferred no advantages on our traders, whom it was mainly intended to help . . . The impression is given . . . that India intends to adopt a detached attitude and act as an honest broker between the two parties. My Lords, it is impossible to act as an honest broker between right and wrong...
Chunky, spectacled Frank Bielaski, an ex-Wall Street broker turned Government secret agent, had handled many cases for OSS during the war. One midnight, tracing down the document quoted in Amerasia, Bielaski and four aides let themselves into a dark, empty building at 225 Fifth Avenue. They took an elevator to the eleventh floor and there, by what Bielaski later called "deceit and subterfuge," entered Amerasia's office. Once inside, they began a careful inspection. They found one room fitted out with photocopy equipment, a desk in another room spread with copies of Government documents. Behind a door were...
Married. Renee Carroll, fortyish, Manhattan's taffy-haired, mink-coated No. 1 hatcheck girl, since opening day in 1927 queen of the cloakroom at Sardi's restaurant; and Louis Schonceit, 50, Broadway ticket broker and show backer; he for the second time; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...