Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reform before recovery has given way to recovery before reform," Pettee said of the present administration...
Sheridan Downey was raised from Virginia stock in Laramie, Wyo. He returned there after learning the law at Ann Arbor. He tried to reform Laramie politics and, when he failed, joined his brother in lucrative law practice (mostly land cases against the Interests) at Sacramento, Calif. He stuck to the law-with a side-trip in 1919 to hunt monkeys in India-until 1934 when his hobby of reading economics led him to the Pasadena study of Upton Sinclair...
...Stock Exchange, the Old Guard was finally humbled by the Richard Whitney incident after a long battle with reform elements headed by Brokers Paul Shields, John Hanes and E. A. Pierce...
...Curb the reform element was headed by an E. A. Pierce & Co. partner named Jerome Chester Cuppia, who, although he still sports the waxed mustache of the '90s, is in 1938 a member of more exchanges (14) than anyone else in the U. S. Way back in 1930 Jerry Cuppia suggested a paid president for the Curb, but he might as well have proposed to move the Curb back outdoors. His continued pressure for reform finally got him in so bad with the Old Guard that it blocked his re-election as a governor early this year...
Undaunted, Jerry Cuppia kept demanding reform, joined forces with such men as Howard Sykes, independent broker, Henry C. Brunie of L. A. Mathey & Co., Theodore V. D. Berdell of Berdell Brothers. Eventually the Old Guard permitted the appointment of a committee to investigate reorganization. The hollowness of the committee's proposal was echoed by the silence with which SEC Chairman William O. Douglas met it. Furthermore, it outraged many a Curb member with the suggestion that any who also belonged to the Big Board or were associated with a member be penalized...