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Visiting the U. S. as usual for a week before the Derby was Sidney Freeman of the London bookmaking firm of Douglas Stuart, Ltd., to buy up Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes tickets that might win prizes. After the race was over, Broker Freeman cheerily announced that-unlike the last two trips, which resulted in substantial losses for his firm-his $750,000 purchases had brought '"Duggie" a handsome profit. Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes tickets cost $2.50 each. Of this, $1 goes into the Hospital Fund and operating expenses, the remainder into prizes. Twenty major prizes, a total...
...seats sold for $1,500 compared to a 1929 high of $20,000. The St. Louis market is largely investment, and 90 out of the 100 issues traded are local. A thousand shares is currently a big day. President is Benjamin Franklin Jacobs, 57, a cordial, smartly-dressed broker who thinks that the SEC is a very good thing indeed...
Despite the testimony of Doorman Robinson, at least one witness was able to get the name of Jim Thomas on record as the source of the Budget leak. The evidence came from a dapper stockbroker named Reginald Marriott. Broker Marriott has in his office a customer's man named Edward Alfred Waterton, who has as a customer one Harold Eves, solicitor and secretary to Alfred Bates...
...lover Hans was to be Tenor Mario Chamlee, who sang under the old-time Metropolitan regime.' Surprise came at the performance when Basso Louis D'Angelo, long confined to minor roles, emerged as a blustering comic. D'Angelo was the ubiquitous, bewhiskered marriage broker, with the flowered vest, the gaudy watch chain, the inseparable red umbrella. The stammering, half-witted Wenzel was Tenor George Rasely, a native of St. Louis, with a radio reputation and many a church job behind him. He had scarcely made an appearance, had scarcely stuttered a line before the audience accepted...
...Christian Smuts's career were graphed it would look like a broker's nightmare. He has been a lawyer, a politician, a soldier, a rebel, a turncoat, a philosopher, a diplomat. Among his own countrymen he has touched the nadir and the zenith of popularity. During the Boer War the British pursued him with blood in their eye; in the World War they made him a general. Smuts has attracted more hatred from varying sources than any man in South Africa. But through all his ups & downs he has kept the quiet consciousness of duty done. Volume...