Word: bartow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best filled positions on the team are the flanking posts, where George Haydock, Bartow Kelly, Duncan Long cope, Perry Keats, "Sted" Steadman and George Duane are giving each other close competition...
...president of the Exchange, Richard Whitney began misusing securities of the New York Yacht Club. By 1931, Depression had nicked him so badly that he used his position as a director of the Corn Exchange Bank to get an unsecured loan from it for $500,000. Morgan-Partner Francis Bartow happened to learn of this and arranged to have it exchanged for a $500,000 unsecured loan from J. P. Morgan...
...member firms (as a firm having no margin accounts Richard Whitney & Co. had always avoided this). Dick Whitney tried to bluff his way through by submitting fake figures, but the Exchange sent accountants to his office. This time, Brother George was in Florida, so Dick ran to Morgan-Partner Bartow with the whole miserable tale and a request for $280,000 more. Banker Bartow went to Lawyer John W. Davis, who forbade any financial assistance as improper. Bartow then motored out to Long Island to see J. P. Morgan himself. "Mr. Morgan was shocked beyond measure. He gave...
...Pepper, escorted him with honking horns to St. Cloud's city limits where he was met by the town's band and drum corps. From St. Cloud, the motorcade, swollen to 250, followed the Senator around Polk County through Davenport, Haines City, Auburndale and Winter Haven to Bartow where Claude Pepper climaxed a typical day by announcing to a crowd of 2,000 that he would vote for the Townsend plan even if the President vetoed...
...last week scheduled public hearings to question Morgan Partners George Whitney, Francis Bartow and Harry Davison on their knowledge of Richard Whitney's failure. Called to the stand meanwhile was Dick Whitney's predecessor as president of the Exchange, Edward H. H. Simmons, who testified that he knew last November that Dick Whitney had been using the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund improperly but had not reported it to his fellow Exchange governors because George Whitney made good the deficit. Asked if he considered this the full measure of his duty, he remarked: "It is easy...