A broker had offered us a parcel for future delivery at a price he thought cheap and we accepted it.
In January a broker in the trade, not a competitor for the reason that he was a specialist in a line that I did not cover, gave me a large order, for future delivery.
This concern knew we were perfectly responsible, but took this method of discrediting us, expecting that the broker would help the matter on by gossiping through the trade about it.
I knew it was not from any of the New York trade, and I could not believe, judging from the broker who was doing the buying, that it could be for account of any American speculator.
Amongst others to whom I wrote requesting assistance in this matter was one man, formerly a broker in New York and to whose firm I had given a good deal of business in the old days.
The broker did gossip about it, but as his account of the incident was correct, it added to our prestige.
Why should not an insurance broker get a commission on losses as well as premiums?
The purpose of the average broker was to induce the Guardian to accept his chaff with as little wheat as he could possibly bestow, while Mr. Cuyler's, on the contrary, was to take the wheat and the wheat alone.
Superficially there would be said to be scant difference between a lawyer and a broker or a real estate dealer or an insurance man.
He sends his order to Jones, a broker who has solicited the business.
His broker can't get anywhere near enough to cover him.
The commission to the insurance broker who handled that line--who could secure it and control it--would be ten per cent of fifty thousand, or five thousand dollars.
I don't see how a broker dares to tackle you; I wouldn't, if I were a broker.
Nearly every insurance broker in Boston has at one time or another had a go at John M.
In the meanwhile, I'll go ashore and stir up that broker again.
Well, I'll put on a broker to bid for her who knows his business.
I wouldn't have stayed so long, only that confounded broker told me a man called Merril was sending a steamer up.
If I have to take her I guess I could get my money back by sailing her, and, anyway, the broker will run Merril up.
Calls himself general broker and ship-store dealer; but he has money in everything, from bush ranches to steamboats.
My broker doesn't know when they mean to send the rest of the cases down either, and it seems it's only now and then a mail goes up that coast.
I have only noticed them from over the way, because if the broker saw me, bless you, he'd ask any price for them!
Tompkins, a Bedford Hills stock-broker with offices in Wall Street, and reported me to the F.
Middle-aged Stock Broker Cleans up in Wall Street, Looks for God.
I'd be damned if I'd let my son be a stock-broker with a Great Dane--I might even take the Ambassadorship to Canada.
Cone, "I haven't heard a single brokeror banker committing suicide since Pearl Harbor.
Of course, of course,’ said divers members of the company, who understood almost as much about the matter as the broker himself.
The old broker of souls is the man in possession of mahogany.
Once he abstracted a large amount of money from the vest pocket of a broker as he was standing by the old Herald building.
He easily convinced the broker and the magistrate that Jack was innocent; and as far as the Republican politician's business was concerned, Jack was honest, for J.
He had been a broker and a clubman, and was high up in the world.
A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market.
A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.
I've been driven nearly mad going from broker to broker in the City to-day.
Outwardly, the broker still had a pretty good grip on himself, but in his tone his rising excitement was easily enough discerned.
Stocks and merchandise changed hands on this spot a dozen times a day, and the cautious bill-broker who never had any funds of his own to lend, came here to scent the financial air.
On the other side her gains may be counted by millions by any broker on the street.
The wife remains, and no broker or operator who is not very new at the business ever attempts to get the better of Mrs. Green.
He has possibly seen the broker grow rich within a few years and envies him.
I should think a broker would not give half-a-crown for all the furniture we saw.
The broker is a man who effects a sale without coming in contact in any way with the materials sold.
Dick had been down in that section long enough to understand that often the winning or losing of a big financial deal depended on a small matter, such as the broker had mentioned.
The broker seemed to have got hold of the very churches; for their spires rose into the sky with an unwonted air.
This the Captain, in a moment of uncommon conviviality, had confided to Walter and his Uncle, between the repetitions of lovely Peg, on the night when Brogley the broker was paid out.
The outside broker who advertises himself freely in the newspapers, as well as by pamphlets and circulars, is to be avoided.
The stocks and shares of railway and other companies may be purchased through a broker or banker, and the holder passes them over to a buyer by a formal deed of transfer.
It is doubtful if there ever was any property, or engineer, or board of directors, or, in fact, anything more than the outside broker and his confederates.
In this way, too, the country broker is liable to be pressed by his London agent to get rid of particular stocks or shares which hang heavy on hand.
One may be permitted to wonder why the broker and all his friends do not rush in and secure every share that is to be had.
Any sums of money may be invested in, or any particular amount of stock purchased of, the Government Funds, through a broker or banker, and there is practically no limit to the quantity that may be held.
The broker charges his customer his own commission or brokerage on the trans- action, which ranges from 2s.
The pamphlets issued by the advertising outside broker are sometimes amusingly artless in the endeavour to sell shares and attract custom.
Any amount may be invested in the above stocks and annuities through the medium of either a banker through his broker, or by a broker direct.
Keene won his success as a broker through his painstaking study of the property in which he invested either for himself or for others, and through the amazing courage he evinced in taking a chance on properties in which he believed.
Tregars, the stock-broker rose with difficulty to his feet.
Harry put on as bold a face as possible, and inquired of thebroker the circumstances, which he very minutely narrated.
It appeared the broker had received but little injury, and was as busy as any one in endeavoring to find out the rogue.
They did look out for the hole, but it might have been that the cunning broker referred to a hole of more consequence than that in the stairs.
In the mean time, the broker had left town, having sold out his office to a young man.
It was a tolerably long walk to the abode of which the worthy broker spoke in such high terms of commendation.
Now a broker is a man who makes an income out of other people's funds,--a gleaner of stray extravagances; and by doing the public the honour of living upon them may fairly be termed a little sort of state minister in his way.
And a live wirebroker gets that reputation as a salesman.
A broker acts for a client in the purchase or sale of property.
Now the investment broker found a land of desolation and ruin, and the printer in sorry plight, living in a crude, bare shack, clad like some waif of the streets in the clothes donated by the settlers.
With an investmentbroker interested in mining projects under my very roof, many of us might have become rich and the Brulé prosperous in no time.
Well, our broker picked up a few shares, and there were some more in the estate of Ralph's uncle, and the president of the company kindly arranged it so that we could get a little more.
Investigation showed that the broker had succeeded in picking up a few shares, but hardly enough to exert any considerable influence.
In some amazement, thebroker apologized and retired, and Murray began to wonder what would happen to him if Mrs. Tucker ever did get enough of the stock to make her influence felt.
