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Last week, as the Dow-Jones industrial average hit a new high of 419.68, the friendly study got under way in the Senate caucus room. First witness was President G. Keith Funston of the New York Stock Exchange. Neatly turned out in a grey plaid suit, Funston started testifying nervously, polished off two full pitchers of water before lunch. But as he worked through his scholarly study of why the market has risen, he relaxed, realizing that he was indeed among friends. There were plenty of reasons why demand for stocks has gone up so fast, said Funston. Among them...
...graduate of the Harvard Business School in 1934, Funston started his business career with the American Radiator and Standard Sanitory Corp., in 1936. Five years later he joined Sylvania Electric, but only briefly. In 1941 he was granted a leave of absence to serve as assistant to the Chairman of the War Production Board. Three years later, at the age of 33, Funston was named President of Trinity.G. KEITH FUNSTON has been president of the New York Stock Exchange since resigning from the presidency of Trinity College in Hartford, for Wall Street...
...York Stock Exchange, succeeding Richard M. Crooks, who declined renomination. A partner of the investment firm of Dean Witter & Co., and a governor of the Exchange since 1949, Scott has been a leader in the Exchange campaign to sell the public on the advantages of stock ownership. George Keith Funston continues as the $100,000-a-year president and chief executive officer of the Exchange...
...Funston, who received a Business School degree in 1934, will be delivering the first of this year's Dickinson Lectures. He will give the second and last of the series tomorrow on the same subject...
...Funston, a graduate of Trinity, has held several executive positions in business firms. In addition, he surved during the war as special assistant to the chairman of the War Production Board in Washington, and later as a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve. In 1951 he resigned as president of Trinity to become head of the Stock Exchange...