Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was known by the firm's floor member, Jerome T. Meighan. who is not to be confused with Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, now being questioned by the Securities & Exchange Commission for alleged manipulation of stock in Bellanca Aircraft. Apparently responsible for the McCaffray finagling was Managing Partner William H. Hosford, who resigned last month. As soon as Floor Member Meighan learned about his partner's activities, he reported them to Stock Exchange authorities...
...Exchange tipped off SEC, which in turn tipped off the New York State Bureau of Securities. Not until the day after the injunction was obtained last week did the gong on the rostrum above the floor of the Exchange bring trading to a halt for the formal announcement that Partner Meighan had been suspended for three years for "conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade in that his firm . . . had engaged in reckless and unbusinesslike dealing. . . ." Later the New York Curb Exchange suspended McCaffrey's Curb members...
...Partner Meighan had to take the rap because he was the only partner who was an Exchange member. Summing up the case, the New York Times declared: "Wall Street observers felt . . . that neither the New York Stock Exchange nor the Curb Exchange had added to their prestige by their handling of the case of Walter P. McCaffray...
...political plans by endorsing Senator Borah for President; 2) Dr. Townsend had seized control of the organization by packing its board of directors; 3) Dr. Townsend's attorney, Sheridan Downey, EPIC candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California in 1934, had weaned the gentle oldster away from his partner in order to further his own ambitions for California's governorship; 4) Dr. Townsend's clique, fearful lest the Congressional investigation disclose some shady Townsend financing, had ousted Secretary Clements in order to have a convenient scapegoat; 5) Dr. Townsend wanted a Townsend third party, while Secretary Clements...
Bret Harte was one of the many rhymesters who sold verses for Sapolio advertising. His parody of Longfellow's Excelsior served as a handout in 1877. The original Spotless Town jingles were submitted to Morgan's in 1899 by a Cornell undergraduate named Eraser, later a partner in the advertising agency of Blackman & Co. Given away by the million in grocery stores, these and later lyrics were sung by vaudeville troupes, dramatized for church and school entertainments, clinched Morgan's thesis on "How to Become Great" in the company's Witchcraft magazine in 1904: "Diligence, Perseverance...