Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Whitney's bid of $2.05 per share for U. S. Steel on a dark day in 1929 was spectacular and hero making [TIME, March 14], how would facile TIME describe someone (the writer for instance) who, even today, would gladly, and with less substantial sponsorship, match Whitney...
That 7,287 persons should have filed suits up to last week claiming a share in the $30,000,000 estate of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez is natural enough. His country's big man for 27 years, he died aged 78 (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935) probably more times a father, grandfather and great-grandfather than any man since Augustus the Strong...
...Alone." Investigations were begun by the Stock Exchange, the SEC and State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. Distilled Liquors stock flopped on the Curb to $3.50 a share. The Attorney General's office called in Robert J. Rosenthal, cashier of Richard Whitney & Co. Cashier Rosenthal revealed that Richard Whitney had established "Richard Whitney's stock control account" in January, had transferred big batches of customers' securities to it, then apparently hypothecated them for personal loans. The first such transfer revealed was $125,000 worth of securities belonging to the New York Yacht Club. Other revelations: Dick...
...chosen a name, its working plans were fairly definite. Each man has promised a new play for next season. (First production will be a play about Abraham Lincoln by Sherwood.) Each is pledged to put $10,000 into a common fund. Each will get regulation stage and movie royalties, share the general profit & loss of production...
...brother of Morgan Partner George Whitney. Richard Whitney & Co. had always been known as "the Morgan brokers." It was in behalf of a Morgan banking group that Richard Whitney strode across the floor to U. S. Steel post on a dark day in 1929 to bid $2.05 per share for 25,000 shares of steel -15 points above the market. That spectacular bid temporarily stayed the avalanche and the tall figure of Richard Whitney became the hero of the crash...