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Simple Arithmetic. Such conviction is sometimes tiresome, even oppressive to vaguer men. Once Baruch's old friend, Senator Carter Glass, was told by a colleague: "Baruch is too dogmatic." Said Senator Glass: "Yes. Especially on a proposition like two plus two equals four. Bernie can be dogmatic as hell about that...
...Baruch, many of the problems of organizing a nation for war are as simple as two plus two. He has firm convictions about this war, as well he might-his eyes have seen the panics and follies of two wars, and both times from a central vantage point denied most...
...Pirates. Bernard Mannes Baruch was born in South Carolina, of aristocratic, but not wealthy, Spanish-Portuguese-Jewish stock. His father was a Confederate surgeon in the Civil War: his middle name is in honor of a friend who gave his father a uniform and a sword...
...Operator. By the time he was 27, Bernie Baruch was a big-time operator himself. He earned his first big commission by buying control of Liggett & Myers for Ryan's Tobacco Trust. He bought a seat on the Exchange, made a spectacular killing by selling Amalgamated Copper short. (The stock dropped from 130 to 33⅜). He met a few sickening reverses: he once said, "I've had some losses that would make an ordinary married man go out and shoot himself." But in 1916, just before Woodrow Wilson called him to serve in World...
...Baruch always operated alone, always held high his reputation for personal integrity. Twice unfriendly Congressional committees tried to spear him; each time he emerged without a scratch...