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Democrat Newton D. Baker Bernard M. Baruch George Brennan Carter Glass...
Bernard Mannes Baruch, who was an active and great stock market operator before he became President Wilson's War aid, returned to Wall Street last week by renting offices in the neighborhood. He intends to supervise his large investments, not to barter. His son Bernard M. Baruch Jr. recently bought a seat on the New York Exchange...
Bernard Mannes Baruch Jr., son of the capitalist-philosopher-Democrat (TIME, March 12), purchased for $350,000 a seat on the New York Stock Exchange from Clarence P. Wyckoff. Graduated from Harvard in 1923, young Mr. Baruch has rubber and steel interests...
Bernard Mannes Baruch made all the millions he thought he needed-a score or more-and withdrew from Wall Street in 1912. "Greatest speculator of his generation" he was called by men who knew. Envious men accused him of having a sixth sense-a feminine intuition that guided his financial darts and swoops. His own explanation was the original definition of the verb "to speculate." He said: "Analyze the word and you'll find that it comes from the latin speculare, to observe. According to the dictionary, it means to ponder a subject in its different aspects and relations...
Great railroad, tobacco, rubber, sulphur and mining companies have been the products of his organizing genius. In 1916, as everyone knows, President Wilson appointed him as an advisory commissioner of the Council of National Defense. Because Mr. Baruch had contributed largely to Democratic campaign funds, the appointment was considered a complimentary one. But it soon became apparent that the Baruch genius could apply itself as well to public as to private affairs, and there was only applause when in 1918 President Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing...