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. ❋ Frank Partnoy (2009)
Mr. Elgindy, himself a bucket-shop refugee, has had some run-ins with the authorities over the years. ❋ Unknown (2000)
The biggest legend of the bucket-shop world may be Al Palagonia, the top salesman at now-defunct D.H. Blair. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Mr. Gilman wanted Mr. Harper to help him write a book about his experiences as a bucket-shop broker. ❋ Unknown (2000)
"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." ❋ Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher (N/A)
He tried a little gamble in "May wheat" with a Winnipeg bucket-shop, plunging what was to him the important sum of twenty dollars. ❋ Max Rittenberg (N/A)
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. ❋ Robert S. Carroll (N/A)
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. ❋ Charteris, Leslie (1937)
The large banks stop public business at half-past twelve, and after that hour is the opportunity of the bucket-shop. ❋ Stephen Graham (1929)
The meaning of bucket-shop and to water, for example, is familiar to every London brokers clerk. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
From that well kept and wearisome prostitute and buffon, Chauncey Depew, down to the smallest operator of a bucket-shop, they are all tarred with the same brush -- things in trousers who would sell their souls for coin. ❋ Unknown (1919)
Salon than a first-class bucket-shop, and Larry Wintefield, who knows more about a genuine Daghestan than you or me knows about a Morse sounder, and Al MacAdam, who can't buy chinaware fast enough! ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
Jingoism, a sort of swell bucket-shop business -- you know the tone. ❋ Unknown (1912)
The man who gambled and lost on "The Howl" was at the same time gambling and winning on a bucket-shop advertised in "The Howl." ❋ Hilaire Belloc (1911)
Also, you get introduced to some new brokers, who said they'd take good care of your margins -- maybe they only ran a bucket-shop, but you didn't know it! ❋ Unknown (1909)
It seemed that we had suddenly been looked upon with disfavour, and I half suspected he thought we were spies of the police, who had recently received numerous complaints of the financial activities of the fortune tellers, who worked in close harmony with certain bucket-shop operators in fleecing the credulous of their money by inspired investment advice. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Miles had squandered money in bucket-shop gambling, but the sin was not uncommon, and the amount of his loss was sufficient to assure his penitence; he was an ally of Bassett's and it was Bassett's way to take care of his friends. ❋ Meredith Nicholson (1906)
He had an income and his stipend, but he was ambitious for me, and, by some means or other, while I was away he was led to invest all his money with one of these wretched bucket-shop companies. ❋ Unknown (1906)
