Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could Mr. Cutten recall any of the transactions which the Senators were sure were "wash" sales between the purchasing syndicate and the trading syndicate. His attorney urged that his client's memory was "not of the best." Mr. Cutten had directed the market operations, which sold all 1,130,000 shares in seven months at an average profit of nearly $11 a share, from Chicago. His cousin Ruloff Cutten, a floor member of E. F. Hutton & Co., had executed his orders. Whenever Mr. Cutten felt vague on a point he would refer to "my cousin Ruloff." Cousin Ruloff...
...Cambridge, Mass, bank engaged in a minor financial transaction with a man named Sprague, inquired of Mr. Sprague's regular bankers if his credit was good, got the following reply: "Mr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague has been our client for many years and has always had our confidence in his credit and integrity. Mr. Sprague holds the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professorship of Banking & Finance at Harvard and has served as professor of Economics at the Imperial University in Tokyo. In 1930 he went to London where for two years he was financial adviser to the Bank of England...
...O.M.W. Sprague has been our client for many years and has always had our confidence in his integrity and credit. Mr. Sprague holds the Edmund Cogswell Converse professorship of Banking and Finance at Harvard, and has served as professor of Economics at the Imperial University in Tokyo. In 1930 he went to London where for two years he was Financial Adviser to the Bank of England, and he is now Chief Economic Adviser to the U.S. Treasury. We consider him a reliable client in every way. Sincerely yours...
Andrew Hamilton, the Clarence Darrow of his day, came up from Philadelphia for the trial, serving without pay. Mind undimmed at nearly 80, he limped into court and offered to prove the truth of his client's charges against Governor Cosby...
...hardly left the White House as Calvin Coolidge's secretary when Mr. Herbermann snapped up his professional services to help Export Steamship buy some freighters from the Shipping Board. The Government was asking $8.50 per ton. Export Steamship offered $5. Fixer Slemp got 18 of them for his client for $7.50 per ton-a total of $1,071,431. He sent the company a bill for $50,000. Mr. Herbermann settled...