Word: transaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broker Pierce is a hardworking, handsome, kindly man whose life and love is his company. His genius for absorbing other people's businesses gives his partners plenty to do. The four or five who mill around the New York Stock Exchange floor could never transact all their customers' business on a busy day. Four more are locked in a cashier's cage all day signing checks and certificates. Others buy and sell commodities. Curb shares. Those who do not have offices congregate in a great partners' room filled with rolltop desks. But even the oldest employe...
...insurance in force. . . . Strong and well managed, it is a company which came through the terrible depression with "colors living." ... I am quite certain most of your readers had never heard of the Abraham Lincoln Life, a company practically unknown in comparison to the Lincoln National Life, as we transact business in 32 States and the Abraham Lincoln Life transacts business in but seven States. Due to the very careless way in which the story has been written it is but natural to suppose that many of your readers will think that ours is the company involved in this scandal...
...thumb of Alexander Hamilton, a slick politician named Aaron Burr wangled a charter for a concern to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." As all the world now knows, there was tucked away in that charter a harmless-looking clause permitting The Manhattan Co. to transact any financial business within...
...Sept. 29, 1931 Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, older and wiser of Cleveland's bachelor brothers of railroading, called at No. 23 Wall Street to transact some business with J. P. Morgan & Co., his biggest bankers. As he chatted in an inner office someone summoned him to an adjoining room. There he found an old friend, Joseph R. Nutt, Cleveland banker. After a brief conversation Mr Nutt produced a document. He beamed while Mr. Van Sweringen signed...
...officers have no very specific duties, but they are the official representatives of the class, and as such transact any official business that the class may have, preside at meetings of the class, and arrange for the various class functions...