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Elisha Walker, bankless banker, and Herbert Bayard Swope, rufous onetime executive editor of the old New York World, were made directors of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. at the request of a group reported to hold 150,000 shares and headed by Bernard Mannes Baruch. Financier Baruch's direct entrance into B. M. T. affairs was thought likely to hasten unification of New York's scrambled subways...
...firm and friendly contact with the silent powers of his party, Mr. Smith heard strong talk against a Roosevelt nomination. Men like Bernard Mannes Baruch did not think the Governor, if nominated, could win. Men like Mrfc Baruch looked appealingly toward Mr. Smith. Somebody had to step in, said they, if Roosevelt was to be headed off. Why not the Brown Derby again? Mr. Smith wondered why not. What if he had said he would not seek office? His friends wanted him. He had taken a bad beating in 1928 when times were good. By rights, he could tell himself...
...father, Dr. Simon Baruch, was the doctor who officiated. He notified the sheriff, Billy de Pass,* but the sheriff came just as the fatal shot was fired. As a boy, I remember very well the posse that came to my father's house the next day to discuss the question of going after Cash...
BERNARD M. BARUCH...
...Baruch's memory errs. The Sheriff was a Captain Doby. Capt. William L. de Pass was a lawyer, one of the gentlemen originally challenged by Col. Cash...