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...teach a business class the mechanism of the stock market, each student was equipped with the daily financial sections and an imaginary $1,000 to speculate with. The teacher, acting as broker, required each of her charges to speculate on a 10% margin, change his holdings every other day. Soon she was able to sell most of them...
Died, John Muir, 87, Manhattan stock broker, pioneer specialist in "odd lot" sales (less than 100 shares) of securities; in Flushing, N. Y. Called the "Odd Lot King," Broker Muir was an early advocate of "baby bonds," of the partial payment plan which the U. S. Government adopted in selling Liberty Bonds...
Both longs and shorts sprang forward to attack the Exchange. Broker Dyer, a square-jawed man of 47 who cut his teeth in the sugar business as an office boy 31 years ago, declared: "My conscience is absolutely clear of any wrongdoing, and it is plainly a case of where I have been made the 'goat' to cover up errors of omission and commission of the board of governors of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. . . . Practically without exception my firm and clients were not net short of sugar, but were short of December against other sugar that...
...have passed 35 and feel secure before marrying, said Rabbi Wolf. Conversely, girls as young as 15 seek husbands. Likewise, older kalles knock at least a dozen years off their age. "If a lady has real love affairs," observed the rabbi, "she never has to go to a marriage broker...
Last week the most popular president the Curb Exchange has had in years let it be known that when his term expires next month he will quit the Curb, transfer his activities to the Big Board. Broker Grubb expects to become a partner in Coggeshall & Hicks as soon as the New York Exchange approves the transfer of a seat...