Word: meehan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. Fox Theatres sued him and six of his friends & kin for $5,000,000 last fortnight (TIME, July 4). Fox Film Corp, last week sued to recover possibly $10,000,000 from Filman Fox, Jack G. Leo, a former vice president, and partners in M. J. ("Mike") Meehan's brokerage house, which handled many a Fox pool. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Aaron Fox, came forward too, with a $250,000 suit in behalf of her children...
...Lionel Barrymore a spacious and declamatory role, the sort that suits him best. It is not to be confused with Washington Merry-Go-Round, which Columbia will presently release, although it contains a shot of a carrousel against the background of the Capitol. It is an adaptation by John Meehan and Samuel Blythe of Author Henri Bernstein's play The Claw. To give the plot pertinence in a presidential year, the scene is Washington instead of Paris, but Lionel Barrymore's role is the one he had in the play. He is Jefferson Keane, an eloquent and stubborn lawyer...
Into his syndicate Broker Meehan drew 63 participants. The biggest names were mostly Irish and Roman Catholic-the late Nicholas Frederic Brady, Thomas J. Regan, William F. Kenny. John Jacob Raskob, each down for 50,000 shares, each depositing $1,000,000. In Broker Meehan's wife's name was another $1,000,000 deposit, for 65,000 shares. Several other wives were listed for large amounts. In for lesser amounts were Percy Avery Rockefeller, William Crapo Durant, Walter P. Chrysler, Herbert Bayard Swope, Detroit's Fisher Brothers. Senator Norbeck was amazed to learn that Comedian Eddie...
Anxious to learn how the pool profited $4,925,000 on an investment of $12,683,000, the Committee called Broker Meehan. He had sailed for Europe the night before, "a very sick man." They also called Pool Manager Bradford Ellsworth. He was reported to be in Canada. Though he had been ill in Florida during the actual operations, Co-manager Thomas E. Bragg confirmed the facts & figures that Counsel Gray adduced...
...Stock Exchange for the two days came to 931,000 shares. With the pool's accounts now balanced at 39% profit, the stock slumped immediately to $101. Disappointed "little fellows" dumped what they had bought. Five days later Radio was back to $87.25. Counsel Gray said Broker Meehan had immediately set about forming another pool. Asked whether he had personally investigated the assets and liabilities of Radio Corp., Witness Bragg said: "They didn't have many assets or liabilities but they had a good idea...