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...victor was Bernard Mannes Baruch...
More responsible, however, for the Baruch triumph was his double-barreled opening before the Senate Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry. The first barrel he aimed at Senator Long, Father Coughlin and others who have cast aspersions on him as a double-dyed Wall Streeter...
...committee room of the munitions investigation, love of peace is kept at white heat, but when Mr. Baruch made this declaration, the noble emotion of Senators, witnesses and onlookers alike was momentarily superseded by normal human curiosity. Mr. Baruch promptly proceeded to satisfy that curiosity. The great South Carolina-born speculator whom President Wilson made head of the War Industries Board had prepared a letter setting forth his security holdings and profits during the period...
...Manasses, made newsworthy last fortnight by Father Coughlin, who declared that Bernard Baruch got his middle name (Mannes) from him. Most Biblical scholars dismiss as mythical Father Coughlin's story of Manasseh having Isaiah sawed in twain...
Ably defending Bernard Marines Baruch against attacks from the Long-Coughlin. loudspeakers, Arthur Krock, wise chief of the New York Times' Washington staff, casually dropped a story hitherto untold by biographers of the financier. The story (to correct the Long-Coughlin estimate of Mr. Baruch's "influence" in Wall Street) : He had yearned to own the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, had been thwarted by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Baruch confirmed the story: "As a youngster in South Carolina, I used to sit beside the railroad tracks and throw pebbles after the trains...