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...years ago, spoke tall Bernard Mannes Baruch, speculator and financier extraordinary, economist, authority on mineral waters. His father was a Prussian-Polish Jew who emigrated to the U. S., served as a field surgeon in General Lee's army; his mother was the daughter of a Southern planter. Bernard Mannes Baruch went north as a young man, became famed for his market operations, his floating of the great Goldfield Consolidated Mining Co. during the panic of 1907 and, later, for his services as Chairman of the War Industries Board. Memories of this last occupation gave him material...
...nature of this proposed tribunal was clearer when Mr. Baruch added: "No repressive, inquisitorial, mediocre bureau will answer; we must have a new concept for this purpose, a tribunal vested, like the Supreme Court, with so much prestige and dignity that our greatest business leaders will be glad to divest themselves of any personal interest in business and there serve. . . . Its deliberations should be in the open and should be wholly scientific...
BERNARD M. BARUCH...
Prime mover in National Cornstalks Processes, Inc.. was onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois. Last week, he became a stockholder, helped subscribe $500.000. Among other stock-holders : New York's Bernard Mannes Baruch, Chicago's Joseph Edward Otis, In-national Harvester's Herbert F. Perkins...
Fire swooped upon "Hobcaw Barony," island mansion of Bernard Mannes Baruch at moss-hung Georgetown, S. C., and totally destroyed it. Mr. Baruch and household, uninjured, withdrew to Kingstree, S. C., 30 miles inland...