Word: brokering
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...respected Brussels broker with a solid clientele is meticulous M. Verviers. Last week his office was crowded with anxious Belgians including several War widows in trailing weeds...
Within 72 hours after Broker Verviers' arrest for guessing at 25% devaluation, Premier van Zeeland, having first closed all exchanges, was telling the Belgian Chamber and Senate that he planned to devalue the belga by a maximum of 30% if other nations will join Belgium in an international monetary stabilization pact. If they will not, then the bright blue sky is Premier van Zeeland's devaluation limit...
Candidate Gay's only move was to release a dignified statement, promising unqualified support to any member picked by the nominating committee. Probably without the slightest intention he thus put President Whitney in the position of being a "bolter." Tall, thickset, bespectacled Broker Gay has a background as different from Broker Whitney's as Manhattan is from Brooklyn, where Mr. Gay was born and still lives. ("Although," he says, "some people can't understand why.") Long before Mr. Whitney was ready for Groton, Mr. Gay was clerking in a drygoods house. Later he went into insurance, then...
...much to the dissatisfaction of her former allies, is playing her historic role of mediator and preserver of the balance of power. One of the most favorable signs in the present imbroglio has been the enthusiastic reception given by the German populace to Britain's part as the "honest broker...
...practice, however, he may trade in & out throughout the game, and any other idle broker may join in, although an outsider does not have the advantage of holding a numbered slip. Instead of settling individual transactions, each broker records his trades as he would on the Floor, turning over to a volunteer "clearing agent" for "settlement" at the end of the game his "bought" and "sold" memoranda. The game goes on until trading peters out or the real stockmarket stirs in its sleep. Losses have run as high as $200 in a single game but the average gain or loss...