Word: brokering
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...judges in the debate here were Francis J. O'Hara, headmaster of the Thorndike School, Paul R. Bishop, director of the Bishop Lee School, and Frederick B. Taylor '99, Boston investment broker. The chairman was Moses O. Ware, formerly of the faculty of Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford...
...Harriman, a onetime Louisville belle named Grace Carley, married a broker cousin of the late Railroader Edward H. Harriman 45 years ago, has since been a prominent Manhattan socialite. A large, determined, forthright lady, Mrs. Harriman thinks it is a shame that millions of U. S. dollars are exported for the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes and other foreign lotteries when they might be kept at home. People who agree with her to the extent of paying $1 to join her Conference automatically become eligible to enter a "Selection Sweepstakes." Here they are called upon to display their skill and judgment...
...Committee's roster of those giving $5,000 to $10,000 each to the Crusaders and $10,000 to $15,000 each to the Liberty League included Broker Edward F. Hutton, President George Monroe Moffett of Corn Products Refining, President John...
Having thoroughly libeled President John Howard McFadden of the New York Cotton Exchange with accusations of unethical business conduct, Witness Brooks ripped into Cottonman Clayton. Assuring the Senators that Mr. Clayton ran the Cotton Exchange single-handed from his Houston office, the broker declared: "Any reforms on the Exchange must come from legislation, and they must come immediately." Strangled by Cottonman Clayton's domination, the Exchange was "as dead as the mule down on your farm...
...continuing requirements. The 55% margin must be met only at the time a loan is made or stocks are bought. If the stocks decline, the loan or brokerage account becomes under-margined, not in the eyes of the law, but from the viewpoint of the anxious banker or broker. The Reserve Board blandly insisted that this had been true all along...