The Archive · 1928

Broker's Huge Fortune

The whole of Wall Street is onviously admiring the Irish-Ame un, Mr. Michael Mcehan, who, ale most single-handed, staged the sen-rational rise in Radio Corporation Common stock, the shares of which advanced by $15 in the last seven Twenty years ago Mr, Meehan was selling tickets at a Broadway theatre agency. Yesterday's cou fs believed to have yielded him between 1,030,000 to £3,000,000, Rivals pay a tribute to Mr. Meehan for his daring and success which, they declare, has probably never cen equalled.—Reuter,

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