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...follows: he set up six individual concerns each operated by its own partners, and each a specialist in a particular branch of the business. One was to sell high grade bonds, another land bank and Home Owners Loan bonds, a third Southern municipals. One was to act as broker for the others. Reports on municipal bonds were to be furnished by a bureau known as the Municipal Yardstick. Over all was to preside The National Marketplace for Municipal Securities, Inc., with Michael Devlet as president. Its purpose : "To provide the paternal guardianship of ... Michael J. Devlet for deserving proteges...
...Tuerk, producers). What has happened before the play begins: Elsa (Violet Kemble Cooper), hot-blooded Austrian noblewoman, marries a prince, has a daughter (Carol Stone) by a peasant (Tom Powers), exhausts the prince's fortune in pursuit of a singing career, deserts prince & peasant to marry a Manhattan broker, fails dismally as a diva. What happens during the play: Grown to adolescence, the daughter displays a voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous opposition to the girl's studying abroad...
...gold, 2) that rumors of his intending to establish a new Government-controlled central bank were a bad guess. Then he smiled cryptically. The country was still left guessing. In the Senate, Inflation's Thomas called a meeting of his friends and supporters-Father Coughlin, Robert Harriss (cotton broker), George LeBlanc (ex-banker). James H. Rand Jr. (Committee for the Nation)-to ballyhoo their demands. In the House, Representative Andrew Somers announced that the Coinage, Weights & Measures Committee would hear the opinions of all the most vociferous money theorists-hard, soft, and elastic-Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, Frank...
...parts. Though Biographer Winkler cannot make Banker Stillman out a double-dyed, red-handed villain, he does succeed in conveying the impression that he was cold as a fish, unlovable, cautious, secretive, able. As Winkler tells it. the precocious but well-boosted rise of James Stillman from Manhattan cotton broker to president of the National City Bank reads like an Alger success-story. Once in control of the bank, Stillman determined to make it Manhattan's biggest. In two years he ran up its deposits from 12 to 30 million, by the simple expedient (according to Winkler) of quadrupling...
When plump young Ronald Tucker Finney, prize bond broker of Emporia, Kans., was spending money few men in Kansas outdid him. He owned two Arabian thoroughbreds, a Bellanca monoplane, a fleet of automobiles, a Wild West show (101 Ranch), a floodlighted tennis court. When he was arrested for forging nearly $1,000,000 worth of municipal bonds (TIME, Aug. 21) he precipitated a scandal such as few Kansans have ever begotten. But when his father, Warren Wesley Finney, bank president and pillar of Emporia society, was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to from 36 to 600 years in jail (TIME...