Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall Streeters, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the world's biggest brokerage house, has long been known as "We, the People," "The Thundering Herd," "Bureau of Missing Persons." A supermarket of finance with 104 partners in no cities, Merrill Lynch handles everything from commodities to 10% of all trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Founder Charles Edward Merrill always took the gags as a compliment. Over the years, his driving ambition was to convince the small investor that he should buy a stake in the U.S. economy. Said Merrill: "America's industrial machine is owned...
Prophet & Savior. Charlie Merrill did not start out to bring Main Street to Wall Street. The son of a Florida country doctor, he spent two years at Amherst College, quit to work for Eastman, Dillon & Co. Later he set up his own firm, then teamed up with Edmund C. Lynch. As an underwriter and investment banker, Merrill Lynch helped set up such big chain-store operations as S.S. Kresge, Grand Union and Safeway Stores. As brokers, Merrill Lynch & Co. also built up a sizable business during the roaring...
...finish my letter since." High comedy results from Wolfe's continual difficulties with he friends and relatives who considered hat he had behaved abominably in puting them in his books. After the publication of Look Homeward, Angel almost the entire population of Asheville, N.C. was eager to lynch the author. Wolfe and devoted Editor Perkins laboriously explained to one and all the writer's need to draw lis fictional people from experience. But when Perkins read the manuscript of No More Rivers, he too was outraged to find himself and his Scribner associates pilloried in Wolfe...
This Way to Egress. In Fredericton, N.B., the Daily Gleaner printed an ad for the Bill Lynch Shows, a carnival, touting "An Extra Added Attraction, a close-up view of that strangest of all living creatures-the Two Legged...
...Preacher Prescott, both a Job and a Jeremiah, is summoned to his church in the dead of one night by the clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads off an ugly racial skirmish with an impromptu sermon: "Whether old Abe Lincoln live and die in vain depend on you ... I know well's anybody, we got fight back now and then [but] everybody got find...