Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free hand, signs his name to anything he asks them to publish in conflict with the papers' policies. For supervising his autonomous brood he draws an aggregate salary of $64,370 a year. Politically he is independent. A Hooverite and a Dry in 1932. he became a New Dealer through his interest in managed currency and his friendship with its No. 1 manager, Cornell's famed Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren. Lately he has reverted to Republicanism. Still bone-dry in sentiment, he permits the editors of his individual papers to accept beer and liquor advertisements...
...connected with the Gay Nineties, but which apparently still flourishes. This sets one Freshman apart from the many sons of "executives in corporations and large business concerns," who have not yet been sufficiently soaked by the tax collector to deprive their sons of a Harvard education. The fervent New Dealer expects that this condition may be on the way to correction next year. So far 101 Freshman sons of this group can still hold their heads up with the sons of "93 lawyers, 67 doctors, 79 merchants and one pawnbroker...
...Merrick wrote verse, won a short story contest, abruptly abandoned his literary career when his father died in 1912. Returning to Florida, he became obsessed with the idea of building the perfect city on the site of the grapefruit grove. For ten years he slaved as a real estate dealer, accumulating capital. By the time the boom began he had 4,000 acres with a few roads and other improvements just started. Overnight he found himself one of the richest men in Florida...
Founded in 1910 by three Brothers Salomon, of whom two?Percy and Herbert?are still alive and at the head of the firm, Salomon Brothers & Hutzler has always been known largely as a dealer in Governments, municipals, high-grade corporate bonds, bankers acceptances, short-term paper. Because the late Arthur Salomon originally hoped to model his firm on the big London discount houses, advertisements are always signed "The Discount House of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler," though the term is almost meaningless today. Its bond and paper business keeps it in constant touch with banks and institutions, and the Socony issue...
...also totaling $46,000,000, drawn on his account. In return he received all the stock of the Yount-Lee Oil Co. at a price of approximately $2,190 per share. Biggest check went to Pansy Yount, who owned 6,800 shares. Next biggest went to a Beaumont automobile dealer named Emerson F. Woodward, who had 5,000 shares. Founder Lee, now Republican State Chairman, owned 3,000 shares...