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After World War I, men like Jesse Livermore, Arthur W. Cutten and Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith preyed on the public. One bull device was the pools about which Bill Martin spoke: speculators pooled their capital, corporate connections and trading talents, and then quietly bought stock in a company. They artfully pushed up its value, suddenly sold out and let artificial prices plunge. One such pool in Sinclair Consolidated Oil earned $12,618,000 for Harry F. Sinclair and a group of cronies. Another in Radio, as RCA was then known, netted nearly...
Colgate's gruff old President Cutten sized up President-elect Case last week and decided he would do. Barked Cutten, bringing a characteristic lopsided grin to Ev Case's freckled face: "No one ever heard of a bald-headed fool." Like all past Colgate presidents, Case is a Baptist...
Colgate got a new president last week whose bald head belies his years (40). To succeed retiring George Barton Cutten (TIME, Feb. 2), Colgate's trustees chose judicious, pipe-smoking Everett Needham Case, son-in-law of Owen D. Young...
...meeting at the University Club in New York yesterday, the Board of Trustees of Colgate University elected as their ninth president Everett N. Case, instructor in Finance and assistant dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration since 1939. Case will succeed Dr. George B. Cutten, president since 1922, who will retire August...
...Cutten believes that college graduates should marry early and have plenty of children. He has three himself. No crony of his faculty or students (says he: "A college president has no friends"), he likes to fish and swap yarns with Yale's Professor Emeritus Billy Phelps. His prime hobby is collecting antique American silver spoons, of which he now has the finest collection in the U.S. At Colgate he often retires to his workshop to hammer spoons himself...