Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shares reached a peak, a new group of sharpers moved in, said Lefkowitz. Knowing the stock was astronomically overpriced, they began selling short. Among those known to have sold short, said Lefkowitz, were two ex-convicts, Sidney Barcley and Morris ("The Weasel") Miller, who got one-year prison terms in 1958 for SEC violations involving Canadian oil and uranium stocks. After the price plummeted, Barcley made the rounds of sweating brokerage houses offering "mob money" to bail the brokers out and take over their businesses...
Looking ahead, many analysts saw the market consolidating for an early resumption of its rise. One strong force firmly applying upward pressure was the continued rise in earnings (see below). Said Josephthal & Co. Partner Sidney B. Lurie: "There is still vitality in the earnings uptrend which the market is perhaps underestimating at current levels. Personally, I expect much higher individual stock prices in the spring...
...Sidney Bennett's tricky lighting that works, and a good set by Robert G. Skinner are other elements of a production that does nothing to obscure either the merits or the deficiencies of a play that has qualities of both...
Peter Lorre, as a small time peddler of happiness, this time in the form of contraband exit visas, is his usual wicked self and Claude Raines, playing a French prefect willing to go along with the Germans, is brilliantly non-committal. Striking down nothing more menacing than flies, Sidney Greenstreet portrays a man marvelously unconvincing self-proclaimed leader of "all organized crime" in Casablanca. In short, the gang is all here for the picture. The only disappointment is that Lorre is bumped off too soon...
...asked him an embarrassing question: Who had paid for the 1958 remodeling of his six-room Harlem apartment? Cried Jack: "I haven't a damn thing to say about it, and you get the hell out of here." But a week later Jack admitted that Real Estate Operator Sidney J. Ungar, a longtime pal and Tammany Democrat, had picked up the $4,400 tab. It was not a gift. Jack insisted, merely a friendly loan without note or collateral. But it just so happened that while Ungar was paying to have Jack's bedroom painted orchid pink...