Word: marketer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exchange authorities called Nathan J. Miller,* senior partner of the Stock Exchange house of Miller& Co., on the carpet. His firm was found guilty of "washing stock,"-i.e., making fictitious sales without real change of ownership-in the shares of the Southern States Oil Company on the Curb Market, and promptyl expelled from the Stock Exchange. Mr. Miller secured a temporary injunction to this order. But this injunction has recently been dissolved by Justice Robert F. Wagner of the N. Y. Supreme Court and the action of the Exchange has thus been fully upheld...
Years ago, a case occurred where the Exchange was not so fortunate; and the petitioning member was allowed, in the teeth of the market's authorities, to return to the floor. However, the law cannot compel one man to trade with another. The broker in question was "sent to Coventry." No one recognized or spoke to him. His bids and offers were ignored and he could do no business on the Exchange floor. After an hour or so, he gave it up and retired from the Stock Exchange as gracefully as possible. Never since that time has the Exchange...
Meanwhile, the earnest editorialists will discover occult influences at work. Diabolic, middlemen are wringing the shekels from the consumer's pocketbook. That demon, Inefficiency, hauntre of conscientious Americans, is implicated in the plot. The credit for the improvement of the market serves even to make a president, for, according to political medicine-men, it was the jargonish singsong of the last campaign which cast the devil of bankruptcy out of the farmer's "innards...
...earnest zeal of the Fascists is too youthful. The whole world may not fall down and worship. Some may deny the articles of its faith, a few may even laugh. At all events, here is new panacea ready to compete with the Muscovite tonic-sellers for the international dope market...
Arthur W. Cutten of Illinois, trader in grain, reputed to have made 15 million on paper in the present bull market, is celebrated for his efforts to avoid celebrity, to hide his light under a bushel...