Word: brokering
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...Hawkes's place, they nominated as their candidate David Van Alstyne, 51, OF Englewood, majority leader in the state senate and wealthy Wall Street broker. But Hawkes did not want to quit. Crying "a threat to our free primary system," he announced that he would run anyway...
...Audacity. In 1939, roly-poly Terry Fahye, then going under the name of Bennett-Fey, was banned by the New York Supreme Court from trading in securities in New York. Four years later he turned up as "a war contract broker" in Washington's famed "House on R Street" inquiry (TIME, May 15, 1943). In 1944 New York City's late Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia accused him of being the front man for Racketeer Irving (Waxey Gordon) Wexler in deals in war surplus goods...
Moral Victory. In Los Angeles, Howard R. Taylor charged a real-estate broker with removing buildings from Taylor's property, sued for $6,963, was awarded $5 for an outhouse...
Wallace stopped the mission, later said: "The Department [of Agriculture] has no intention of re-employing the Roerichs." In Manhattan, Roerich's chief financial backer, Louis L. Horch, a broker later turned bureaucrat, who had put more than $1,000,000 into the Riverside Drive Museum, went to court to get back control of the building. The thousand paintings were unslung from the museum walls. Later the U.S. Government sued Roerich for back taxes. Pegler devoted 25 columns to suggesting that Wallace wrote letters calling Roerich "Dear Guru" (Teacher...
Moors Hall, the gift of Boston broker John F. Moors '83, will feature such innovations as smoking rooms with connecting kitchenettes and space-hoarding dressers and bookcases sunk in the woodwork...