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Nothing Doing. Small-time operators are particularly unwelcome at firms whose operations are badly snarled. Hayden, Stone & Co., which last month decided to close ten offices and fire 200 of its 1,100 customers' men, has told survivors that they will not be paid for taking orders that earn less than $12 in commissions. Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis says no to anyone who wants to open a new account with an order of less than $1,000 for a listed stock, or $5,000 for an over-the-counter stock. E.F. Hutton & Co. turns down would-be clients with...
...many firms that have not been restricted by the exchange, brokers are also quick to show the door to the speculator whose hankering for cheap stocks usually means a foray into the untidy over-the-counter market, where most of today's stock-delivery foul-ups occur. Says a broker at Chicago's G.H. Walker & Co.: "Frankly, we're going to refuse the guy who wants to buy 1,000 shares of a $1 stock. On the other hand, if he's got $800 for a blue-chip stock, I'd take that business." Since...
...chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, Texas Democrat Wright Patman has made a career of jousting with U.S. bankers. Last week he thrust at their Swiss counterparts, whose secret subterranean vaults have long been the world's principal haven for nervous money-accounts whose owners are not anxious to admit ownership. After two days of public hearings, Patman called for legislation making it illegal for Americans to deal with any foreign bank that does not allow inspection of its records by U.S. regulatory agencies...
...book's owner, Maurice Conchis (Anthony Quinn) befriends Urfe and brings him into his vortical universe. Conchis possesses many strange items: a schizoid mistress, Lily (Candice Bergen), limitless wealth, a haunted villa full of perceptible ghosts and fauns and figures. He also proudly exhibits his own grave, whose tombstone reads, "Death...
...result is an often flawed, some times naive but largely fascinating chronicle whose inflated pretensions as a work of real scholarship are punctured by swarms of errors. As a work of history, the book is marred, too, by an overwrought style and an unbecomingly snide use of irony. Manchester is not fond of the Germans, and he caricatures them either as superefficient and slavishly obedient or as a folk barely removed from dwarfs and dragons, blood feuds and bags of tainted gold...