Word: trotta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold one of its three Big Board seats (for $375,000) and laid off 70 employees, including about half of its research staff. To increase its capital to the level required by the New York Stock Exchange, the firm also borrowed $600,000 from another brokerage house, Scheinman, Hochstin & Trotta, and arranged for up to $10 million more from private sources...
...Where Were You, Mr. Huntley?" Predictably, annoyance at times gave way to acrimony. Jim Hoffman, an NBC time salesman who took over the llth Hour News on WNBC-TV walked into Hurley's, the broadcasters' favorite Sixth Avenue bar-and into an earful from striking Newswoman Liz Trotta. "Why are you being rough on me?" he asked her. "Well I'll tell you," huffed Trotta. "We just don't like amateurs." That opinion was Liz Trotta's, and did not necessarily reflect that of the nation's viewers...
Some other witnesses violently opposed any policing of installment practices. Maintaining that "our credit system is too vital for the Government to tamper with," A. Leonidas Trotta, credit research director of the National Retail Merchants Association, argued that people expect to pay more when they receive the benefits of installment buying. Said he: "To give them too much information about financing costs would only befuddle them...