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Toward that end, he argued strenuously against restrictions on Wall Street stockjobbing and other forms of speculative gain.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2012

The U. S. aviation industry's first stockjobbing scandal broke open last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

But his story was the most detailed report yet of the sordid state of influence peddling, political wangling and general stockjobbing into which the once-great RFC had fallen.

From Time Magazine Archive

This rural English couple managed to lose $55,-ooo, so they claim, in stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London.

From Time Magazine Archive

He apprehended it would be productive of much stockjobbing, and that they would play into one another's hands in such a manner as that this property would be lost to the country.

From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society