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James Smith Ferebee, 31-year-old La Salle Street broker, has a golf handicap of 11 at his club, Chicago's de luxe Olympia Fields. Fat Fred Tuerk, his crony, averages "around 176" for 18 holes...
Chief Characters: Slow-moving, heavy-jowled Exchange President Charles R. Gay, a worried broker who means well; arrogant, handsome Richard Whitney, leader of a clique known as the Old Guard; puckish, tart-tongued SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, reputed to be a radical of the deepest dye; Brokers Paul Shields, E. A. Pierce, John Hanes and William McChesney Martin Jr., upstarts...
...worst crash since 1929. As the toboggan gathered momentum, President Gay began to seem a seer and SEC was on the spot. SEC chairman then was amiable James McCauley Landis, who was so busy retiring to become dean of Harvard Law School that he scarcely bothered to reply to Broker...
Curious parallels show in the two authors' backgrounds as well. Son of a Midwest surgeon, pseudonymous William Blake, now in his 403, has been a broker and financial editor in Wall Street and Europe, four years ago went into the grain business in Antwerp, where Christina
...Redwood City, Calif., Frederick S. Moody Jr. applied for a license to wed Florence Gayle, 18-year-old San Francisco nightclub entertainer. This Mr. Moody gave San Francisco's Olympic Club as his residence, oil broker as his occupation, divorced as his marital status. Queried by reporters same day, Frederick S. Moody Jr., Olympic Club member, oil broker, divorced husband of Tennist Helen Wills Moody, denied filing the application, denied knowing Miss Gayle. Snapped he: "I was in San Francisco...