School Street
Books
- Fifty Percent in Ninety Days Charles Ponzi, the Boston Post, and the Scheme That Named a Fraud · Liszt Think
In 1920, an Italian immigrant clerk in Boston promised to double investments in ninety days through postal reply coupons.
- Rose of the North End…to 1919, Ponzi played the role of respectable husband with the intensity he had brought to previous performances. He rented an office at 27 School Street in the summer of 1919, a small room from which he attempted to sell business ideas to contacts in Europe. The location was significant: Sch…
- The Man Who Could Not Be Fired…opportunity, real or imagined, attracted competitors who might expose the impossibility of his promised returns. The solution came through School Street, a location in Boston’s financial district that would become synonymous with his name. In January 1920, he established the Securities Excha…
- The Circular from Spain…tter in his hand had traveled from Valencia, Spain, addressed to the trading concern he had attempted to establish six months earlier at 27 School Street—a venture in import-export commissions that had generated nothing but correspondence. The document was cheap paper, machine-typed, bearing…