Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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City Councilor John D. Lynch, who is the president of two local banks, was robbed and beaten late Thursday evening as he returned to the home of his mother-in-law, at 15 Grozier Rd. Reportedly, one or more of the three men who assailed the eldest member of the council and former mayor were hooded...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 told the council Monday that "he was reliably advised that friends of Lynch are offering substantial reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of the assailants. According to the Boston America, the reward amounts...
Sweet young Wheaton girls, at least 150 of them, strung up Fidel Castro in effigy last night. Taking care not to sell their madras skirts, the lynch mob danced 'round the hanging-tree-Maypole, staying "God Bless America," and other patriotic songs...
...wild-eyed investors. They make it hard for the investor to get new issues unless he is a longtime customer. White, Weld & Co.-along with many other top-grade firms-refuses to open new accounts for people who want to buy only new issues. Other firms, such as Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, refuse to buy unlisted stocks priced below $2 for customers. The best brokerage firms also require a customer buying a questionable stock to confirm that the stock purchase was unsolicited...
...Michael William McCarthy, 57, president of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the nation's largest brokerage firm, was named chairman and chief executive officer, filling the vacancy left by Winthrop H. Smith, who died last January. Trained in the grocery trade, McCarthy joined Merrill Lynch in 1940 to straighten out the firm's accounting and order-processing operations, then in a tangle because of merger with other firms using different procedures. To prepare, he worked in every department, then successfully tackled the tangles, moved up to a general partnership in 1944. The new president: George J. Leness...