Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the biggest U.S. brokerage house, has never put out a market letter for its customers. Virtually every other firm puts out at least a weekly or bimonthly letter, considers it as vital to business as a scratch sheet is to a race track. "When a speculator walks into our office," says one big broker, "he wants a copy of the market letter. If we don't have one, he'll march right across the hall to another brokerage office that does...
Councilor John D. Lynch gave the plan full approval, stating, "I believe in letting people park their cars anywhere, anytime." The other councilors in favor of Vellucci's proposal were Hyman Pill, Charles A. Watson, and Thomas M. McNamara. The proposal is under consideration by the Council's Ordinance Committee...
Before he dies, Woolbright and Hunt have fled his side, the town has cried for his blood, and Lacey's Negroes have again heard the growls of the lynch mob. The brief reign of the "new South" in Lacey dies also, leaving the survivors with nothing more than bitter knowledge of failure. Author Spencer, who was born and raised in Carrollton, Miss. (pop. 475), has, like many Southern writers, a poet's sense of words. Unlike most, she brings a disciplined mind and an invigorating economy to her third novel. Time and again, an imaginative phrase pins...
...other brokers thought the good times would last forever, Charlie Merrill saw the 1929 crash coming, urged customers to put their financial houses in order. When the crash came, some of Merrill Lynch's customers went broke, but others, who had taken Charlie Merrill's advice, saved an estimated $6,000,000. Merrill's firm was rock solid. Yet Merrill was so depressed by the sorry state of the industry that he transferred much of his capital and customers to E. A. Pierce, one of the biggest wire houses, for nearly ten years restricted himself to piling...
...Charlie Merrill went back to the brokerage business. Combining first with Pierce, later with Brokers Charles Erasmus Fenner and Alpheus Crosby Beane, he set out to help rebuild U.S. confidence in stocks by offering investors the most conservative advice, cutting out service fees. In 1949 alone, Merrill Lynch's brokers gave lectures to 30,000 women in 65 cities, spent some $400,000 on advertising...