Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political plug-uglies, millions of loyal subjects overwhelmingly convinced that violence has no place in politics. Last week svelte, high-waisted Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, rich Fascist, decided to reform his Black Shirt movement into two sections. Members of the first or so-called "elite section" must be firm believers in violence as an instrument of party policy...
...declared: "My conscience is absolutely clear of any wrongdoing, and it is plainly a case of where I have been made the 'goat' to cover up errors of omission and commission of the board of governors of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. . . . Practically without exception my firm and clients were not net short of sugar, but were short of December against other sugar that could not be delivered. . . . The cause of complaint was the technical corner which existed in the midst of plenty...
...Street as a brokers' clerk at A. A. Housman & Co. That day was historic: by noon Wall Street had been thrown into a panic by the Northern Pacific corner. Broker Pierce learned to work twelve hours a day, still does. Elected a partner in 1909, he served his firm faithfully but unspectacularly for 18 years. Then, on Jan. 1, 1927, he announced the formation of E. A. Pierce & Co. to take over the business of Housman & Co. and six brokerage houses it had gobbled up. Rapidly the new firm began a career unparalleled in Wall Street...
...country, reaching into Canada. Soon the company was universally recognized as the largest wire house on the New York Stock Exchange. When Germany was on the brink of financial ruin in 1931, brokers chuckled: "Nothing to worry about; E. A. Pierce will take them over." All during Depression the firm gathered brokerage houses into its system, until Wall Street lost track of mergers, found it easier to count active partners of which there were 14 in 1928, 21 last month when E. A. Pierce absorbed the brokerage business of Philadelphia's Cassatt & Co. (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week...
...famed woman in Wall Street. She is a Pierce partner. She is also a martinet. She forbids smoking anywhere in the office from 9 to 3 o'clock. She allows no employe to make personal telephone calls except when absolutely necessary, or to write personal letters on the firm's stationery. No E. A. Pierce clerk may appear before a customer in his shirt sleeves. She has ordered that no matter how brilliant a man's mind may be, he shall not be employed unless he is physically fit. All applicants are examined by physicians; a clerk...