Word: durant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missing Persons show's gentle detectives tenderly dissuading vague citizens from intentional amnesia (see above). In Penthouse the New Yorkers are types with whom cinemaddicts should be more familiar-two important gangsters, a socialite lawyer and miscellaneous strumpets, all briskly engaged in alcoholism, murder and adultery. Lawyer Jackson Durant (Warner Baxter) loses his fiancee because she disapproves of his friendship with a jolly gangster named Tony Gazotti. Not especially disheartened, Lawyer Durant presently has a chance to laugh last. His fiancée's next admirer (Phillips Holmes) is accused of murdering a onetime sweetheart at a penthouse...
...stock at about $1,350 a share (1929 earnings were $55 a share and later earnings declined). He actually succeeded in maintaining the price in that neighborhood until April 1932. At that time the Harriman National took over Liberty National Bank (founded in 1923 by William C. ["Bull"] Durant) paying one share of its own stock for 180 shares of the Liberty. About that time, too, the U. S. Attorney began investigation, fruit of which was the charge last week that Joe Harriman had used $1,661,170 of the $25,000,000 of deposits in the bank to maintain...
...addition to the letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressed to D. S. Carmichael '35, there is Will Durant's comment on the President-elect: "This is a civilized man; he could look Balfour or Poincare in the face." For the Republican-minded there is President Hoover's signature on a program for the 56th American Bankers' Convention...
Benjamin Block, broker to Wall Street market makers for nearly 20 years, retired from his Stock Exchange firm last week. His best customers were Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed bear operator, and William Crapo Durant, oldtime head of General Motors and leader of many a potent pool in the Coolidge bull market. Broker Block would often take huge selling orders from Bear Livermore over one telephone while Bull Durant was on another wire to place huge buying orders. To customers he thought were wrong he would snort: "You're throwing your money away"?and take the order...
Jesse Livermore, a friend from pre-War days in Chicago, Broker Block has called "the gamest and cleverest trader alive." Durant he said was "as square a man as you'll ever know, and when his friends are losing he is losing more than any of them." Broker Block ought to know; he helped Durant throw away a $90,000,000 fortune trying to support General Motors' stock in the 1920 crash. But Bull Durant fell out with Broker Block two years ago when his account was sold out. Early this year he sued for $378,000, claiming he loaned...