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Other Possibilities. Outstanding among Chicago's industrialists, of course, is utilityman Samuel Insull. Possibly the baseball and gum interests of William Wrigley Jr., the stock market speculations of Arthur W. Cutten, the taxicab past of John D. Hertz (see BUSINESS) make them less available. No such considerations, however, would arise in connection with Thomas E. Wilson, packing house (Wilson & Co.) president, or Thomas E. Donnelley, "biggest" printer. Ideal from the standpoint of public spirit would be Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears Roebuck, famed philanthropist (Chicago Industrial Museum, Jewish colonization in Russia, Negro schools and Negro...
...same site. Centre of grain trading for 44 years, the old building has seen trading in eleven billion bushels of "cash" grain, amounting to 6,000,000 full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title of Corn King from J. Ogden Armour. Here "Old Hutch"-P. B. Hutchinson-ran the price of wheat from 89¾? a bushel to $2.00, then watched the market collapse to 60?. Present value of a Trade seat...
Speculator Smith calculates that if, in the next week, these stocks each rise even only 20 points (and all have been known to rise 20 points in a few hours) he will have a profit of $10,000. He feels akin to Arthur Cutten and the Fishers...
Whether Mr. Cutten bought Sinclair stock with a Sinclair-Prairie consolidation in mind, or whether his purchase represents only a characteristic bullish point of view on oils, is a question upon which one man's opinion is as good as any other man's-except Mr. Cutten's. The situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that Mr. Cutten has arrived at the position in which any stock that he buys is automatically skyrocketed by his buying...
...hardware store on Lake Street, Chicago, had for a messenger boy 15-year-old Arthur Cutten. Soon Arthur Cutten, still a messenger boy, was working for a commission house. From messenger boy he became a clerk for A. S. White, onetime president of the Chicago Board of Trade. Later he was one of A. S. White's pit traders. Then he entered the grain market for himself, and during the World War is said to have made more money than any other individual operator. He once accumulated four million bushels of corn, bought at 80? a bushel or less...