Word: sisto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mines, said that this year's gold mining activities in Ontario alone will split $45,000,000 between wages, supplies, taxes & dividends. Gold shares have soared in Toronto and Montreal. A further whet to speculation was news last week that famed Manhattan Speculator George Forsythe Breen and Sisto & Co. planned to invest $250,000 new capital in Barry-Hollinger Mines, a hitherto only fairly successful company whose shares sold at 3½? last month; 9? last week...
...legislative committee's public sessions. Governor Roosevelt confined himself mostly to the Mayor's own testimony, poking him on weak spots in his explanations. The Mayor wriggled painfully when, for example, the Governor took up the $26,000 in bonds the Mayor had received from J. A. Sisto & Co., brokers, as profits from a speculative pool in Cosden Oil Stock: Governor Roosevelt: Practically what happened was they said to you, "We'll put you into the Cosden pool. It won't cost you anything. . . ." Now how many shares did you think you were getting? Mayor Walker...
...bonds which Joseph A. Sisto, a broker interested in securing taxicab legislation, gave the Mayor three years ago were bonds of Reliance Bronze & Steel Co. and convertible into stock. Reliance Bronze & Steel Co. sold the city $43,500 worth of traffic lights for Fifth Avenue last year...
...Broker Sisto had said that he invested in Cosden Oil stock for the Mayor but without his knowledge, after meeting him for the first time in Atlantic City. He did not give Mayor Walker the total $88,000 in profits from the transaction since he was hard up for cash, but sent him $26,535 m bonds through a henchman named McKeon, who testified he passed them to His Honor while riding home in the Mayoral limousine...
Mayor Walker admitted that he had "many kind friends" who did him unsolicited favors, but denied Broker Sisto had kept him in ignorance of the investment. He said that had the Cosden Oil pool lost money he would have borne his part of the loss. He did not receive the bonds in his car but in his home while dressing for dinner. The gift had no connection with the establishment of the Board of Taxicab Control. He suggested that had he really wished to graft from the Parmelee Company he could have gotten much more than $26,535 by failing...