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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bear's Brick. Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, member of the New York Stock Exchange, has the reputation of being the stormiest bear on the Floor. He makes a pet, however, of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.; whenever this issue is mentioned he becomes a beaming bull. Fortnight or so ago Bear Smith departed for a vacation, announced he would visit Alaska, inspect Juneau's plants. Last week he saw the mines, bought a souvenir. It was a $25,000 brick of solid gold, weighing nearly 100 pounds. "Brick No. 1,000" will probably be sent...
When told the oil operators might seek relief in the U. S. courts, Governor Murray exploded: "Just let 'em try to pull that old Federal court injunction stuff on me. It'll be like a jackrabbit trying to tree a wild cat ... Some of these quill suckers-said my action was bad precedent and that if I could do that for oil, it could be done for cotton and wheat. They don't understand that an executive order must invariably follow the law and there's no law to control cotton or wheat production when...
...Federal injunction, he snorted: "I said 'Hell no' yesterday, say 'Hell no' today and will say 'Hell no' tomorrow. The free bridge is open now. If folks are fools enough to want to pay 75? to cross the toll bridge, let 'em...
...Hutton & Co., was a bull. Not until the decline was well under way did he loom as a powerful bear. He is of medium height, fairly heavily built and a little mysterious to all but a few men in Wall Street. He is quiet, says "smack 'em" whenever stocks are mentioned. He has been mentioned as the No. 1 Bear in Case Threshing and is reported to have bet $1,000 that by the end of 1933 Case would sell lower than his pet, Alaska Juneau. At the time their respective prices were $90 and $12. He is supposed...
Last year "Smack 'Em Ben" is said to have been asked if he were any relation of David Lamar, onetime "Wolf of Wall Street," manytime a criminal suspect. He is supposed to have laughed, replied, "Sure, I'm the brother-in-law of the Wolf of Wall Street." The New York World telephoned him to ask if this fact was true. He thought it was a joke, said yes. The next morning the World published a story in which it said that Bernard E. Smith was David Lamar's brother-in-law. Within 24 hours this statement...