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...Oxford Holdings used to be called RKS Financial Group, and it was the parent company of a sketchy brokerage firm called Reynolds Kendrick Stratton. In the spring of 1993, Kott helped arrange for a group of investors to acquire a controlling interest in the brokerage company, and Kott was hired as a consultant. Reynolds Kendrick Stratton aggressively promoted Kott-related stocks, notably shares of a NASDAQ-listed company called Hariston Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET LIFE OF JB OXFORD | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

Shortly after that story appeared, RKS announced that it was pulling out of the full-service brokerage business. RKS shut down Reynolds Kendrick Stratton, and a new brokerage firm took its place: JB Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET LIFE OF JB OXFORD | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

After the 26th of July movement in 7 Ray served as Minister of Public rks in the Castro government until vember of 1959. Then, he said, he "be-me worried about the Communist in-nces in the government and the loss freedom of the press." When Castro k control of the University of Havana, re Ray was a professor, he went erground and began to organize...

Author: By Rudolf V. Ganz jr., | Title: Cuban Rebel Chief Says Underground Can Depose Castro Without U.S. Aid | 5/4/1961 | See Source »

Tricky Mix. Schary's tactics have paid off. Until he went to RKO, the chain's uneven movie production was just an appendix to its operation of some 125 theatres. RKS's setup was to make a few pictures, hire others from independent producers. It was on such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy with Fair Hair | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Shame Yes, an would ye believe it? I hear as how one uv the hathen at the University has been making dir-rty remar-rks 'gainst His Holiness. He said he never knew fwhat a papal bull was until he laid eyes on the Cardinal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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