Word: risked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customers, when other U. S. investment dealers had no understanding of such commerce. When Japan was fighting Russia in 1905, Jacob Schiff (1847-1920) then senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was in London. The Japanese Government wanted $50,000,000. London bankers said they would risk $25,000,000. Jacob Schiff said that his firm would take the other $25,000,000. Subsequently, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. sold $200,000,000 of bonds to finance Japan through the Russo-Japanese...
...been said before and will be said again. The public is perhaps tired of the repeated hue and cry about "professionalism", "modern gladiatorial combats", and "over emphasis". But repetition is one of the laws of education. A few score men will continue to fight these at the risk of becoming tedious...
...President proclaimed the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 7 as War Risk Week-a time when all good citizens should tell World War veterans that they have only until July 2, 1927, to reinstate lapsed war risk insurance...
...these meagre details the Daily Mail added a sarcastic comment that it would not risk printing a picture of Comedian Chaplin, lest this constitute a legal breach...
While economists with harsh voices declaimed last season against and for installment purchase of merchandise, Lawyer Morgan Joseph O'Brien of Manhattan, 74, father of smart Kenneth O'Brien* and eight other children, studied the selling credits of 34 industries and found them good risk. The result is the $31,000,000 American Rediscount Corn., which was to start business in Manhattan last week, after the method of the Federal Reserve banks. Lawyer O'Brien is chairman of the company's advisory committee; Comptroller Lawrence H. Hendricks of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...