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...that Milton Work's was the best. When he saw the Culbertsons beat this system he suffered the pangs of the defeated. His forehead cupped with silver hair, tall, mild, bespectacled Mr. Hoxsey afforded Senator Wheeler a perfect contrast to Richard Whitney, who looks more like a rich broker than rich brokers usually look...
What made the Senator mad was Broker...
...expansion of electrical power, he made up his mind to get rich in copper. Charles Hayden proposed to do so not by mining copper but by speculating in copper. Year after graduation he took a $3-a-week job as a "ticker boy" to learn the inside of a broker's office. At 21 he was ready to borrow $20,000 from his father, launch his own brokerage business with his officemate Galen L. Stone, whose Milk Street friends put up another $20,000. Hayden, Stone & Co.'s shrewd "market letter" and energetic ways soon brought...
...getter-in Senator Wheeler put on the stand that old investigation favorite, Richard Whitney, Depression president of the New York Stock Exchange. It developed that Broker Whitney and his predecessor as Stock Exchange president, Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, were on the famed "Morgan preferred list" for 1,000 shares each of Alleghany common stock. They got their allotments before they received application to list the stock...
...Broker Whitney: I certainly do. It would not and did not affect my judgment in the least...