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The Belgian Syndicate, having been driven out of business by the financial boycott which the official group was strong enough to organize on the European bourses, it remained for China to see whether she could not find some combination or some man who would be bold enough to ignore all governments. Her search was not in vain. In September a London stockbroker, Mr.
Zimmerman, the stockbroker, whose office is on the sixth story, might easily fall clear of the Greek restaurant in the corner of Greenwich Street, roll twenty-five yards more down Morris Street, and find himself on Washington Street reading a copy of Al-Hoda and making his luncheon off baha gannouge, majaddarah and milookeiah, which, after all, are only eggplant salad, lentils and rice, and the popular favorite known as Egyptian Combination.
The Family Egotist forgot his burning desire for speech and ceased to threaten his wineglass; the Gentle Lady was quite excited; the Weary Roué became almost alert, and the Good Stockbroker looked as if he were about to burst into tears.
The home is centred in his study, full of books, engravings, a large safe, telephone, theatrophone, newspapers, cigarettes, easy-chairs. When I go in, an old friend, a stockbroker, is there, and "thees" and "thous" abound in the conversation, which runs on investments, the new English loan, banking accounts in London, the rent moratorium in Paris, and the war.
From the Bank he proceeded to the establishment of Messrs. John M'Call & Co., who were at that time among the largest grain merchants in Glasgow, and for some years Mr. Watson presided over their provision department then of very considerable extent. When he assumed the profession of a stockbroker, there were no representatives of that business in the city.
The great advantage of being the fool of the family My destiny is decided, and I am consigned to a stockbroker as part of His Majesty's sea stock Unfortunately for me Mr Handycock is a bear, and I get very little dinner.
In the sphere of science and invention, of industry and economics, as Norman Angell and others have taught us, the world is already one Great Society. For the merchant, the banker, and the stockbroker political frontiers have been broken down. Trade and industry respond to the reactions of a single, world-wide, nervous system.
The face is very serious; but he has a delightful smile. Mr. and Mrs. Bissett now both recognised their friend and stockbroker, whose letter was in Mr. Bissett's pocket. The vision, which interested Miss Angus, passed away, and was interrupted by that of a hospital nurse, and of a lady in a peignoir, lying on a sofa, with bare feet.
You won't walk off with Charlotte some fine morning and marry her at a registry-office, or anything of that kind, eh?" "I will not," answered Valentine resolutely, with a very unpleasant recollection of his dealings with George Sheldon. "Give me your hand upon that," cried the stockbroker. Upon this the two men shook hands, and Valentine's fingers were almost crushed in the cold hard grip of Mr.
He was strikingly thin. Twopenny was stockbroker to the Bank of England, and died in 1809. Wharry. John Wharry, who became a Bencher in 1801, died in 1812, and was buried in the Temple Church. Jackson. This was Richard Jackson, some time M.P. for New Romney, to whom Johnson, Boswell tells us, refused the epithet "Omniscient" as blasphemous, changing it to "all knowing."
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