Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the clamor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange had been stilled to permit President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons to announce in hard, sharp accents that a member, found guilty of unethical conduct of his brokerage business, was expelled, the member in question, Herman W. Booth, was nowhere to be found (TIME, Oct. 3). The incident was soon drowned by the roar of hundreds of brokers resuming the hawking of securities about the 29 posts of the floor. No active trader had Mr. Booth been, with hundreds of clients to represent. Apparently his misconduct had been technical...
...finals of the U. S. open championship and with him rode defeat. Hitchcock's play beat Britain in the International matches; Hitchcock's Sands Point team now holds the open title, winning in the finals 11-7. On Hitchcock's four were W. A. Harriman, J. C. Cowdin, U. S. International team substitute, and L. E. Stoddard, former Internationalist. Injury robbed Britain of a better chance. Leading in the third period, 2-1, they lost their strong No. 1, Captain Richard George, when his pony tripped, fell, rolled on him, broke his collar bone...
...gong clanged. All operations were suspended. Busy traders left their posts. Telephone clerks removed the receivers of their instruments from the hooks. Telegraph operators stopped their ticking. All looked up at the rostrum. On the little balcony appeared the cold, scholarly figure of Stock Exchange President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons. Amid a hush he announced that Member Herman W. Booth was expelled from the roster of the Exchange for "conduct inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." It was the first expulsion since July, 1925.š Charges. Herman W. Booth was not in Manhattan...
...Otto Hermann Kahn, once a cashier in a German bank at Carlsruhe, came to the U. S. during the panic of 1893. A few years later he was helping E. H. Harriman reorganize the Union Pacific Railroad. President Roosevelt said of him: 'The soundest economic thinking in this country is now being done by Otto H. Kahn." He sits on the board of directors of the Equitable Trust; Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Mainly he is known for his patronage of the arts?principally the Metropolitan Opera. Last year he endowed the New Playwrights Theatre (Man-hattan). In 1896, he married Addie...
...Pensions for Filipino mothers were urged upon the President by Mrs. Oliver Harriman, vice president of the Child Welfare League of America, and Edward Fisher Brown, League executive secretary, both of whom visited the State Lodge. Mrs. Harriman said that in the Islands were 16,000 neglected children of white fathers and native mothers, that these children were in a lamentable plight...