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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...
...Popular books on academic subjects, written specifically for the layman, are about as well worth while as are any books. However, such books as these have little place in the rightful consideration of the press of a large university. It is remarkable and praiseworthy that Will Durant has been able to interest and instruct so many tens of thousands in his "Story of Philosophy." No one will deny that he has done something worth while on a great scale. But what he, and many other writers to be placed in his general category, has done is something quite outside...
...Fugitive, Thomas W. Durant's six-year-old chestnut gelding, cleverly ridden by Randolph Duffey: the 4th running of the Meadow Brook Cup steeplechase; when Alligator, coming up fast, fell and unseated his jockey at the next to last fence; at Old Westbury...
...South Carolina the issue was: "Shall Cole Blease stay home?" The renomination of Ellison DuRant ("Ipso Facto") Smith, Senator for 24 years, was an emphatic YES. Beaten twice straight for the Senate, blatant and erratic Coleman Livingston Blease was considered to have reached the end of his political career...