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...Abbot picked up letter on his desk, saying, "Here is a letter from Mr. Bernard Baruch endorsing our peace plan. When we advocated it last November, it was received by many as description of How to Make war' as 'The New York Times' put it. But it soon received popular support and is now being discussed in congress...
...Baruch magnified his office. Said Mark Sullivan, able Washington correspondent...
...Just now Baruch seems to be the whole works here in Washington. He has pulled the reins out of everybody else's hands, and is flying down the road with his tail over the dashboard. He goes ahead and acts, regardless of authorization, money, or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own. He has rented a whole floor for himself, and when his secretary reported difficulty about getting more rooms, he said: "Buy the building!" He is successful at getting things done, and with all his assumption of authority, no one gets...
Such power was bitterly assailed. But due credit was his when he bought copper for 16˘ when the prevailing price was 30˘, and steel for $58. Then, quietly resigning on Jan. 1, 1919, Baruch became a student?of economics in general and American farming in particular. He went to Kansas, wrote a report on agricultural marketing, a sort of Magna Charta for the farm movement. And now, in spite of his Wall St. "past," he basks in the confidence and friendship of the farmer. It is also as a student that he endows the Williams Institute. There he will...
...Bernard Mannes Baruch, born Camden, S. C., in 1870. His father, Dr. Simon Baruch, a Spanish Jew, emigrated from Polish Russia, was a field surgeon in Lee's army. His mother was Isabel Wolfe, daughter of a widely respected cotton planter. Bernard entered commerce as a glassware clerk, studied law and medicine, graduated from C. C. N. Y., of which he is now a trustee. When he visited Wall Street and made daily history there he acquired the reputation of "greatest speculator of our generation." Phrases such as "Baruch led the shorts today," or "Baruch, the well-known plunger," appeared...