Word: first-flight
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...size, over-the-counter dealers range from a single individual with desk. space and a telephone to the big unlisted Wall Street houses with the capital and prestige of a first-flight member of the Stock Exchange. They make the markets for the nation's unlisted issues, varying from active Manhattan bank stocks to local real-estate mortgages. All the listed issues on. all U. S. stock exchanges foot up to only 7,000. The roster of unlisted issues may be as high...
...Author. It would be news if a first-flight German author still lived in Germany. Bruno Frank, like most of his colleague-compatriots, does not, is settled in comfortable exile at Sanary, on the Riviera, near his fellow-exile, Lion Feuchtwanger. Big, baldish, blond, Bruno Frank looks like a professional wrestler, lives with the precise routine of a German Ph.D. (which he is). For years a best-seller in Germany, he was until recently one of the most popular German playwrights. He enjoys eating, drinking, smoking; dislikes noises, hypocrites, badly-bound books. He is at present in London, writing...
...Orchestra broadcasts, became publicity and sales director at 25. Now only 32, he is a close adviser of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, who offered him a post as Commissioner of Markets. An ardent exponent of the Nazi boycott, he is one of the youngest and smartest first-flight merchandising executives in the smartest merchandising city in the land...