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...memorized corporation balance sheets; he courted his wife, Annie Griffen, the daughter of an Irish manufacturer, by reading railroad folders with her on a Central Park bench. He also picked up a pirate's knowledge of the shoals and reefs, the rich plunder and the dangers of the stockmarket from the tough crew who dominated Wall Street then: Thomas Fortune Ryan, James Keene, Henry Huddleston Rogers...
...wartime Washington, Baruch-with his stockmarket millions and his undisguised taste for race horses, horse trainers and prizefight managers-was a distinctly gaudy character. One excited White House caller shuddered: "Why, this man is nothing but a speculator!" Said Woodrow Wilson: "I thought he was a good speculator...
...Lunched with the New York Stock Exchange's President Emil Schram, heard that the present bullish stockmarket was healthy. But, said Schram, mindful of the bargain boom in "cats & dogs": "I told the President I was determined to keep uninformed people out of the market. I am going to continue to say to people who don't know what they are doing to stay...
Wall Streeters have a reputation for more wrong guesses than right. But last week they could and did point to one cheerful stockmarket sign: 1942's final week was the biggest & best of the year. In a series of million-share days (1942 average: 420,000 shares), stocks bounced to new 1942 highs, wound up the year 30% above the April lows...
...Young five years of uphill fighting, most of the grey hairs now on his head. It all started in April 1937, when Bob Young and two tyro financiers bought control of Alleghany Corp. for $4,000,000 cash and $2,375,000 notes. Within a few months the 1937 stockmarket break had forced out one of the trio, the second had taken a back seat. Bob was soon in a head-to-head fight with underwriters Morgan Stanley & Co. (over competitive bidding on C. & O. and other bond issues) and a court skirmish with Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...