Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self-styled "Brightest young man in Wall Street," twice sentenced to prison on grand larceny charges growing out of stock manipulations; of a heart attack, while waiting for a thorough prison physical examination; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y. In 1930 an investigation of Woody & Co., his stock firm, led to his first arrest...
...Hutton & Co. is something of a misnomer, for E. F. Hutton retired in 1922 and now has only a minor financial share in the business. The $10,000,000 firm is dominated now by a younger group, of whom 38-year-old Gerald Loeb is prominent in the Manhattan office and Gordon B. Crary in the Los Angeles office. Between them these two brokers manage to see a good deal of colorful onetime Motor-maker Errett Lobban Cord, who lives in Beverly Hills...
Having in general stood up for SEC, Gerald Loeb was more hurt than angry last week., Said he: "Neither I nor my firm has any knowledge or information of any manipulative operation in Auburn stock and we are absolutely confident that the investigation will result in complete exoneration...
...third and lower class hotel, Ball discovered that a Mr. Burgess was registered from Philadelphia as a representative of a firm in Cincinnati, where the law student lives. Ball was unable to find the lodger named Burgess, showed a picture to the clerk, who said it might be the man, since he hadn't seen him with...
...Senator Robert M. La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee. From nine volumes of testimony on labor espionage elicited in the Committee's hearings last year, Senator La Follette concluded that it was a "common, almost universal practice in American industry. . . . Large corporations rely on spies. No firm is too small to employ them. The habit has even infected the labor relations of non-commercial philanthropic organizations [like hospitals...