Word: brokering
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...simply advocating that the system under which a boy is asked to do his work shall not be as irrational as a system which would require of an adult that he be a lawyer from nine to ten o'clock, a doctor from ten to eleven, a stock broker from eleven to twelve, and an author from twelve to one. It is my unalterable conviction that under such a system all but the rarest adult would be foredoomed to failure in all capacities, and do his best work in none...
When Barbara was twelve years old, she inherited nearly $20,000,000 of the fortune which her rugged grandfather had amassed from his 5-&-10? stores. Barbara's pile grew under her broker father's careful management. At the age of 21 she could write her check for $45,000,000. In 1930, in the teeth of Depression I, her fond father arranged a coming out party costing $60,000. Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton hotel was decorated with birch trees cut down and then covered with branches of fresh green leaves shipped to New York from California...
Died. George James Short Broomhall, 82, British grain broker, international authority on wheat, founder and onetime editor of Liverpool's Corn Trade News; in Liverpool...
...religious, powerful London broker, who prompts Jules's observation that "the English are not hypocritical. . . . They have a natural, ingrained double face from birth! They're the Western Chinese: old and smooth with deceit...
...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...