Word: eisemann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...losing but gallant game. Then came a sour tagline to his riches-to-rags story: he was cited by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace for a measly commodity fraud Secretary Wallace charged 77-year-old Willie Durant, his wife and various associates including the brokerage houses of Alexander Eisemann & Co. and H. W. Armstrong & Co. with "having cheated " and defrauded persons for whom futures contracts were made... by the manner in which they promoted and operated a scheme sometimes called the Buchhalter plan of trading...
Still another suggestion was that the producers had arbitrarily boosted the price to put a quietus on a new form of platinum trading. In Manhattan two months ago a syndicate headed by Alexander Eisemann & Co., assisted by International Platinum Corp., began issuing warehouse receipts against platinum. Buying platinum at wholesale, they had it melted into small rectangular ingots, .995 fine, weighing 3 oz. and so certified by Handy & Harman, well-known assayers. The ingots, each stamped with an identifying number and placed in a small fibre box, were put in the custody of the safe deposit affiliate of Manhattan...
Chase 118-pound Gordon Bosler 126-pound Little Daughaday 135-pound Klein Ames 145-pound Haseltine Davis 155-pound Johnson Harkness 165-pound Ware Glucck 175-pound Porter Eisemann H.W. Glendenning...
...settlement which Pynchon creditors expect to run about 25? on the dollar, denying him the chance of saving any stake with which to recoup his fortune. Wall Street, feeling that Mr. Pynchon had failed with honor, was glad last week to hear an announcement: the brokerage firm of Mallory, Eisemann & Co. (Franklin I. Mallory, husband of Molla Bjurstedt and no kin of Mr. Pynchon; Alexander Eisemann, onetime head of Freed-Eisemann Radio Corp.) is henceforth to be Mallory, Pynchon & Eisemann...