Business: Read the Bill!

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The first term of the first U. S. President was just ending when the New York Stock Exchange was founded under the buttonwood tree in Wall Street in 1792. No broker ever became President and few much of anything else. But in the last 142 years the members of the Stock Exchange have perfected a method of buying & selling securities which functions with mathematical precision and a code of financial conduct which is the highest in the world. Its 1,375 members, the best-dressed group of men in the U. S.,...

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