Word: buys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only once did Jimmy Hines have a brokerage account in his own name. Then he gambled in $38,000 worth of Johns-Manville stock, lost $5,458 in twelve days, settled with the brokers for $4,000. He and some friends borrowed $132,559.59 from Lawyer Max Steuer to buy 850 shares of stock in the New York Giants (baseball), on a tip that it would pay $25 a share...
...which range all the way from Hyderabad, with the area of England and Scotland together, a population of 14,436,148 and an annual revenue of about $30,000,000, down to an estate no bigger than an elephant stockade, with 32 souls and not enough annual income to buy silk for a single turban. But by & large, the states' incomes are fabulous. An astounding proportion goes to the native rulers. One rupee in every five of Kashmir's revenue goes to its maharaja (compared with approximately one pound in 1,600 of British revenue to King George...
...slice of the $36,000.000 kitty left when, nearly three years ago, Death came to peg-legged, pleasure-loving Colonel Edward Howland Robinson ("Ned") Green, son of that fabulous old miser, Hetty Green. Colonel Green, who liked to fly his own blimp, collect jigsaw puzzles, jiggle pocketfuls of diamonds, buy "anything that snapped," maintained residences at one time or another in all four States. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court settled the matter by deciding that $5,000,000 should go to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, because Colonel Green "spent more time there than at any other place...
...State Guaranty Corp. P. S. Auxiliary meanwhile bought P. S. Savings & Loan certificates in the open market at about 55? on the dollar, turned them over to P. S. Savings & Loan in lieu of the rent due. If carried through, this smart practice could have enabled Odell to buy in all the certificates, leaving himself owner of all the company's real estate (now valued...
...faced Millionaire Church sold bicycles in Toledo, automobiles in Los Angeles, made enough to buy the finest breeding stable in California and to be one of Culbert Olson's chief backers. Last week Odell screamed that during the election campaign Church asked him for $5,000 on the promise that an attack on Pacific States would be left out of a recorded Olson speech. Custodian Church denied asking for the $5,000, but admitted receiving $2,500, admitted too that mention of Pacific States had been removed from the phonograph record. Governor Olson snapped that he, for one, knew...