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The loose policies of the 1920s Federal Reserve spurred a borrowing wave and promoted a new financial elite, described with pitiless precision by Brooks: white-mustached Jack Morgan and his “brains,” Tom Lamont; the German-Jewish power brokers of Kuhn Loeb; and the infamous bucket-shop operator Jesse Livermore, known as The Boy Plunger.
Books on Financial Schemes Frank Partnoy 2009
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Mr. Elgindy, himself a bucket-shop refugee, has had some run-ins with the authorities over the years.
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The biggest legend of the bucket-shop world may be Al Palagonia, the top salesman at now-defunct D.H. Blair.
Gekko's Little Goons: Backstage With the Real Boiler Room Boys 2000
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Mr. Gilman wanted Mr. Harper to help him write a book about his experiences as a bucket-shop broker.
Gekko's Little Goons: Backstage With the Real Boiler Room Boys 2000
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Mr. Gilman wanted Mr. Harper to help him write a book about his experiences as a bucket-shop broker.
Gekko's Little Goons: Backstage With the Real Boiler Room Boys 2000
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The biggest legend of the bucket-shop world may be Al Palagonia, the top salesman at now-defunct D.H. Blair.
Gekko's Little Goons: Backstage With the Real Boiler Room Boys 2000
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"A bucket-shop, my son," said the father, feelingly, "a bucket-shop is a modern cooperage establishment to which a man takes a barrel and brings back the bung-hole."
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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He tried a little gamble in "May wheat" with a Winnipeg bucket-shop, plunging what was to him the important sum of twenty dollars.
Swirling Waters Max Rittenberg
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The grandfather dallied too often with the "bucket-shop" before he forgave his foolish child, and when he came to his better paternal self, he hadn't much to leave his little granddaughter.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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Our precious politicians can go to Geneva and swindle the Abyssinians with all the dignity of a gang of bucket-shop promoters and slap the poor deluded Spaniard on the back and tell him he's just dreaming about Italians and Germans helping the rebels in his so-called civil war; but the honour of England has been vindicated.
The Saint in Action Charteris, Leslie 1937
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