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...rubbers, teas and mining shares help give 'Change its international flavor. A broker receiving an order in rubbers may have to rush out and buy some Bah Lias, Gula Kalump, or Linggi, while in teas he must know Budla Beta, Chargola, Jokai, Pabbojan. The mining list includes famed De Beers Diamond Mines, the Rand (gold), Johannesburg Consolidated Investments ("Johnnies"), Rio Tinto ("The Tinto"), Roan Antelope, Katanga, Mount Isa, Siamese...
...carrying a trunk with a body in it out of a house here!" Detectives Elmer Mason and Rudolph McLaughlin climbed into their speedy little black Ford, rushed to the address in time to follow Mr. Wetzenberger's truck to a warehouse on East 41st Street. A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge de Zaldo was just about to receive the trunk when Elmer & Rudolph swooped, arrested broker and truckman, opened the trunk...
...actually turning it. Last week the corn pit of the Chicago Board of Trade, slumbering in the doldrums of depression, was stirred to humming life by a squeeze worthy of the late great Benjamin P. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson himself. Thomas Montgomery Howell, a wiry, taciturn La Salle Street grain broker who is picked by many to fill the big shoes left empty when Arthur William Cutten moved up to Winnipeg (TIME, Jan. 26), was the squeezer. Many a fellow trader, including (according to stoutly denied reports) the Federal Farm Board's brokers, were the squeezees...
Pilot Hall, wealthy broker, landed at Havana's Columbia Field by mistake, then hopped over to Curtiss Field where a crowd awaited him and where William Pawley, president of Curtiss Aviation Co. of Cuba, handed him a cocktail as he stepped from the cockpit. He promptly ordered another, rested, flew back to Long Island to organize a national tour of flying Crusaders...
Onwentsia Club in smart Lake Forest, polo has been less a one-man affair, more of a game, with Broker Charles Foster Glore and Major Frederic McLaughlin (Coffee, Irene Castle's husband) as guiding spirits. There were a few Army teams to play with, but by & large Chicago polo was unorganized. Major McLaughlin last winter decided something ought to be done. He suggested to President Louis Stoddard of the U. S. Polo Association that a series of international matches be played at Onwentsia. Mr. Stoddard said that would be fine but they would have to be financed. Major McLaughlin...