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... corporations were issuing common stocks to raise money they did not need in their businesses and lending the proceeds on call. Current business, drained of liquid capital, languished; men lost jobs. This boil on the body politic had its head in Wall Street. Brokers loans, in New York alone, half of them...

... is to highlight how labor laws push migrant workers into running away, and how migrants utilize their agency to negotiate state and nonstate structures as spaces for maneuver within nation-state borders. These structures include recruit- ment companies, NGOs, CSOs, migrant communities, illegal employment brokers...

... dependence on the banks, has also increased the funds which may be used for other purposes, many of which have gone into brokers loans. The increasing concen- * Ivan Wright in The Analist, Sept, 21, 1928, p. 431. 6 The South Atlantic, Quarterly tration of business into larger units has further accentuated...

... be dropped because the stock exchange was closed and nothing pointed to a speedy opening. So the broker s source of income was cut off. It recommended that the tax on life insurance policies be not imposed, because the conditions did not seem to justify taxing a man on the very means he was using to provide...

... of offices for the sale of lottery tickets, to brokers, and these in turn sent out salesmen into the highways and byways, to the servant s entrance of homes, to the grog-shops, out to the country lanes, everywhere. The public had to be made lottery-conscious; they do not appear to have become so suddenly...

... with Yoruba traders. Essentially, they became cross-cultural brokers for their northern Nigerian cousins who came down to Ibadan with cattle. As brokers, they housed the long-distance traders, brought buyers to the sellers, negotiated for loads of kola, and were prepared to extend credit to the traders...

...: at the institutional level, foreign agencies (International Committee of the Red Cross, foreign consulates, etc and, at the informal level, Israeli and Palestinian brokers. I wish not merely to show that the Israeli colonial mechanisms rely partially on Palestinian and foreign state and nonstate actors...

...: The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette . 2001 . Domestica . Berkeley, CA : University of California Press . Human Rights Watch . 2013 . “ The ILO Domestic Workers Convention: New Standards to Fight...

... are to understand the politics of money today. The broker-dealer banks that constitute the shadow banking sector fulfill many of the traditional roles of New Deal depository institutions, albeit on behalf of institutional investors and firms rather than everyday depositors (Gorton 2010a, 2010b...

..., and on the following day Jacob S. Schirmer & Sons, rice brokers, displayed this sign: No rice. No grits. See your Senator. That same day the War Food Administration announced that four carloads of rice, four carloads of grits, and two carloads of corn meal were being shipped from Texas to Charleston a statement...

... broker who popularized the banana in New England markets; and Minor Keith, who built railroads in Costa Rica and flanked them with banana plantations to provide freight for the rail­ roads. Their separate and co-ordinated enterprises were put under one corporate roof in 1899 with the founding...

.... It now appears that the case is closed and that the genius of Sam Ward, Ph.D. in mathematics, as poet, literary broker, friend of Longfellow, Thackeray, et al., master lobbyist, and maker and loser of fortunes, was not sufficient to compromise the adage that crime does not pay. The book includes...

... population of the foreign-born, have many more laws covering this point. In the state of New York, aliens are prohibited from becoming physicians, surgeons, archi­ Unemployment and the Alien 73 tects, real estate brokers, motion picture operators, steam boiler operators, engineers, masters or pilots...

... : Indiana University Press . Berg Heather . 2021 . Porn Work . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Bernstein Elizabeth . 2018 . Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and The Politics of Freedom . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Blair Cynthia M...

... of the breakfast table belongs to three men: Captain Lorenzo Baker, who shipped some of the earliest cargoes of monkey food from Jamaica to Boston; Andrew Preston, a fruit broker who popularized the banana in New England markets; and Minor Keith, who built railroads in Costa Rica and flanked them with banana...

...). Ad hoc forms of collaboration—sporadic as they are and brokered through mundane, often 94 The South Atlantic Quarterly • January 2018 illicit, activities—can be the basis for other forms of implicit recognition and solidarity that at times resemble resurgent class struggle. While...

... courts, marriage brokers, organizers of social clubs, vocational advisers, fortune tellers, mediums all of them operating (carefully) within existing laws. She examined their personal and pro­ fessional qualifications; she interviewed numerous individuals with pointed questions; she called upon...

... thoughtful Americans have attempted to reconcile themselves to the brokers world: the attitude of the Menckenian gentleman, ironic, beer-loving and civilized, living principally on the satisfaction of feeling supe­ rior to the brokers and enjoying the debauchment of American life as a burlesque show...

.... Gradually you come to modify many of your views on puritanism. Probably you had once hoped to play the role of liberator, but it no longer attracts you. You had fancied your­ self as introducing to Alice Lee a cotton broker from New York who would promptly fall in love with her and detach her from her...

... direction is the change which allows the Board to limit the total loans which a bank may make with stocks and bonds as collateral. No bank may make such loans to one person in excess of ten per cent of its unimpaired capital and surplus. The so-called bootleg brokers loans, which played an important part...