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...even to the point of expulsion from membership. Just as a private club is not compelled to tolerate the presence of an objectionable member because of legal restraint, so the Exchange, which is a voluntary association, is equally free. Last year, the Exchange authorities called Nathan J. Miller,* senior partner of the Stock Exchange house of Miller& Co., on the carpet. His firm was found guilty of "washing stock,"-i.e., making fictitious sales without real change of ownership-in the shares of the Southern States Oil Company on the Curb Market, and promptyl expelled from the Stock Exchange. Mr. Miller...
...Johnson, however, was known to have removed ladies' shoes. At a dinner table he would absently stoop down and twitch off the slipper of his dinner-partner, says Thomas Babington Macaulay...
...Author. Mr. Felix Isman was once the business partner of Weber and Fields. With them he ran the Broadway Theatre, Manhattan, and produced many successes. They begged him to write this book about them. When it ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post, Wesley W. Stout was given credit as joint author. In the foreword Mr. Isman (an Elk, a Mason, now a realtor) thanks Mr. Stout for his assistance...
This mountebankery over, Dwight W. Morrow, Chairman of the Association and famed J. P. Morgan partner, rose. There was something to be done, he said. The Knabe-Ampico Piano Co. had given a piano to be auctioned off. Who would beat the gavel ? "Oh, there you are!" said Mr. Morrow, spying Joseph P. Day, famed amateur auctioneer...
...Frail Horace bit his lip, clung to his nerve, made it 8-7, became champion. Score: 6-3, 6-4, 9-7. In the doubles, played afterwards, Henry found solace. He and Malcolm T. Hill, a schoolmate, defended their national junior indoor doubles championship against Horace and his partner, Kenneth Appel...