In a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile, a group of stockbrokers plotting to leave a tyrannical boss found a backer in a courtly New Orleans financier who once cornered the cotton market.
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Cold Feet on the Coast: A Mobile Broker’s Conscience Nearly Sinks the Plot
The fourteenth installment of a bygone-Mobile memoir finds the conspirators summoned to a financier’s beach house, an office secured in the Waterman Building, and one man losing his nerve.
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The Contract, the Confrontation and the Green-Faced Boss: A Mobile Walkout Remembered
The fifteenth installment of a bygone-Mobile memoir delivers the payoff: a suspiciously generous contract, a coordinated resignation, and a boss confronted at his club.
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Passed Over at 48: A Mobile Broker’s Account of Losing the Manager’s Job He Had Earned
In the next installment of his recollections, a Mobile stockbroker described reaching the top of his profession in 1968, then being displaced as office manager the following year by a younger man with better connections.
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A Mobile Broker Remembers the Week His Firm Walked Out and Took the Clients With It
In a January 2005 installment of his recollections of a bygone Mobile, a retired stockbroker described the frantic fortnight in which he and his partners opened a new office and persuaded their clients to follow.
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‘You’re in Deep Trouble’: A Mobile Broker’s Rough First Year Under a New Firm’s Rules
A retired Mobile stockbroker recalled the punishing first year at a new firm, where unfamiliar exchange rules, an unhappy back office and a parsimonious owner made for slow going and a famous Christmas card fight.