Word: mckeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor but without his knowledge, after meeting him for the first time in Atlantic City. He did not give Mayor Walker the total $88,000 in profits from the transaction since he was hard up for cash, but sent him $26,535 m bonds through a henchman named McKeon, who testified he passed them to His Honor while riding home in the Mayoral limousine...
Daniel Manning McKeon, a member of the New York Stock Exchange but a partner in no firm, was not summoned to Washington during the recent bear-hunt. Nor did his name appear upon the Senate's list of big shorts. Although his brother, Robert Manning McKeon, is known in Wall Street as an important independent floor trader, Daniel McKeon had little fame in the financial district until last week...
...morning 20 minutes after the market had opened President Richard Whitney mounted his rostrum, rang the electric gong. What trading there was came to a halt. Gravely President Whitney announced that Member McKeon had been suspended from the Exchange for one year. The charges were that on April 28 (a day when prices were falling) Member McKeon "made offers to sell securities for the purpose of upsetting the equilibrium of the market and bringing about a condition of demoralization in which prices would not fairly reflect market values, and thereby was guilty of acts inconsistent with just and equitable principles...
Near Santa Monica, Calif., three sisters -Mrs. Ada McKeon, 80, Abba Miller, 70, and Jessie Miller, 60-destitute because of stockmarket losses, unable to pay taxes, waded into the Pacific Ocean, drowned themselves...