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Died. Arthur William Cutten, 65, Chicago grain speculator, "Little Giant of the Wheat Pit"; of heart disease; in Chicago. Last month he retired from the Board of Trade, after the Supreme Court reversed his suspension by the U. S. Grain Futures Administration on a charge of holding 116,000,000 bu. of undeclared wheat futures...
...lessen the problem of proving that a person "is violating" the law, past tenses were belatedly inserted in the old Act. It was on that technicality that the courts tossed out the Government's case against Speculator Arthur Cutten...
Retired. Arthur W. Cutten, 65, famed Chicago grain speculator, cleared last month by the U. S. Supreme Court of charges brought against him by the Grain Futures Administration. Cause: heart...
...Colgate's Spartan, white-haired President George Barton Cutten told his students : "The greatest sinners are probably the philanthropists and the doctors. They have done everything they could to keep the unfit. Nature provides immunity to certain diseases by eliminating all those who contract the diseases. Now we have a protected race rather than a resistant race." Of social legislation: "Nothing could threaten the race as seriously as this. It is begging the unfit to be more unfit and inviting the fit to join the ranks of the unfit...
...Chicago newshawks were barred from Mr. Cutten's door which bears the name "Chicago Perforating Co." His friends were sure that the speculator who, once a $7-a-week stockboy in Chicago's Marshall Field's, had made $1,500,000 in corn in a single month and ten years ago cornered more wheat than any man in history (about 20,000,000 bu.), would appeal his case or transfer his trading activities to Canada where he was born. But later that day Speculator Cutten declared laconically: "What's the use of trading? The market doesn...