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...Exchange's visitors' gallery a member of the big firm of Pynchon & Co. was showing a guest the usual sights. That crowd of brokers, he explained, was dealing in United States Steel; the Big Board with its continuously flapping little number cards was the method by which brokers are called to the telephone; the little gallery below the Board was known as the President's Rostrum; that day the president, Richard Whitney, was in Philadelphia making a speech on "Business Honesty," but few visitors ever see the president for only on the most important occasions does...
Seven minutes after Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...
...expanded quickly and without funds. Last year I was temporarily silenced when Fox Film fought off receivership by selling $55,000,000 notes to mature in twelve months. Since then I have haunted Harley Lyman Clarke, who is president of Fox. Also I have haunted Halsey, Stuart & Co. and Pynchon & Co. who played close to Fox. If you fail to silence me, nobody else can. What are you going to do, Banker Wiggin, when those $55,000,000 notes fall...
...other forecast in incorporation (TIME, Sept. 16) was that of Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. Ltd., by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (Goodyear Tire & Rubber financial adviser), Lehman Bros., W. A. Harriman & Co. and Pynchon & Co. It will operate Goodyear-built zeppelins from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii. If traffic warrants it will go to the Philippines. But not until at least 1933, after the Navy ships are finished, can Goodyear-Zeppelin build anything for this new operating company...
Last week scores of costly marine playthings sported along the Atlantic seaboard. In the final, climactic race of the New York Yacht Club cruise, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, persistent vacationist, piloted Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie to beat George M. Pynchon's Istalena for the King of England...