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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just an ordinary man to me." Acquitted. George Noel Keyston. 40, onetime president of San Francisco Stock Exchange, senior partner of Leib. Keyston & Co.: of charges of conspiracy to violate the National Banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1931 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...EXCHANGE UNDER INDICTMENT. To casual readers it of course suggested malpractice, dishonesty, perhaps collapse of the Exchange. To people familiar with the case, however, it seemed more an unfortunate technicality. Two dishonest employes of the Bank of Italy had been operating "dummy"' accounts through the firm of Leib, Keyston & Co., whose senior partner. George N. Keyston, California socialite, is president of the Exchange. Other San Francisco brokers, claiming the firm could not have known these accounts were false, refused to receive customers who wanted to switch from Leib. Keyston, refused to accept the permanent resignation of President Keyston. Meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Quarter | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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