Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gull ranks well below his incomparable Cherry Orchard, his moving Three Sisters. The people it treats of are fibreless, end-stopped artistic folk. Self-pitying, middle-aged Actress Irina (Lynn Fontanne) shrugs, screams, clutches tight the second-rate novelist, Trigorin (Alfred Lunt). Irina's son Constantine (Richard Whorf) writes advanced plays, loves the ingenuous, stage-struck Nina (Uta Hagen), who in turn idolizes Trigorin. Nina is the sea gull- the fluttering bird whom Trigorin ruins out of thoughtless pleasure, condemning her to the life of a third-rate actress, driving Constantine to suicide...
...When Richard Whitney, onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange, was suspended from the Exchange last month for insolvency and theft of customers' securities, his older brother, Morgan Partner George Whitney, was in Florida on vacation. Wall Street took this as prima-facie evidence that George Whitney knew nothing of the pending debacle. Last week this view was considerably modified...
Testifying fortnight ago, Richard Whitney revealed that his brother had loaned him $1,082,000 in November, having already loaned him $2,000,000 several months before. Testifying last week, Richard Whitney was asked to recall their November conversation. His neck slowly flushing, the fallen financier took a deep breath and recounted: "The loan was made because I told him I had been using customers' securities improperly. He was aghast at the fact and terribly disturbed. He said he would see if he could arrange to lend me the money I needed and told me to find out what...
...Richard Whitney used his brother's $1,082,000 to return more than $900,000 in securities and cash belonging to the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, which he had had in his custody and had pledged for a personal loan. Had George Whitney known that there were several million dollars involved in other fraudulent deals? No, said Dick Whitney wearily, "So far as I know, he knew nothing about the rest until it all became public...
...Next day, being Saturday, was only a half-day for trading, but the frantic dumping of securities reached 1,380,000 shares before the closing bell brought the debacle to a halt. As the ticker caught up, brokers for the first time in three weeks forgot to talk about Richard Whitney. They were too busy reading that U. S. Steel was down to $44, U. S. Rubber to $25, American Telephone & Telegraph to $117.50, N. Y. Central to $10.50, Pennsylvania R. R. to $15. Westinghouse to $70, Electric Bond & Share to $5, Chrysler to $41. Gloomiest statistic...