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...witlings, dizzards, giddy-heads and zanies. In the daily 3 o'clock promenade on Montgomery and Kearney Streets, for which the whole city "habitually turned out, were to be seen such picturesque characters as "Topsy Turvy," a woman who had lost her money and her mind in the stockmarket, always wore her clothes inside out, her shoes on the wrong feet and was buried by sympathetic friends under an upside-down tombstone; "Guttersnipe," a filthy scavenger who was hooted by the city's children, and left $15,000 to one moppet who did not hoot; "The Great Unknown...
...they have escaped the rigid Federal regulation of their fellow stock brokers. Minor commodities, as yet unexploited, were being investigated. Quicksilver, now selling at $75 per flask of. 76 Ib., was suggested as a good inflation hedge. Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, brash and jovial stockmarket operator, lately returned from a trip around the world full of good words for shellac and pepper. Though he personally inspected the habits of the Far Eastern lac beetle, he had apparently been influenced by a group of London speculators who call themselves the "Crusaders" and whose sworn purpose is to make...
Wall Street, proverbially volatile, greeted President Roosevelt's signing of the Securities Exchange Act last week with a rousing stockmarket rally. After averaging a bare 500.000 shares a day for the past month, trading on the New York Stock Exchange leaped...
Instead of a welter of specific prohibitions, control becomes largely a matter of "such rules and regulations as the Commission may prescribe." The Federal Reserve Board, which has complete control over all stockmarket credit, is likewise permitted to use its judgment. Almost the only sections which still stand practically unchanged are those dealing with information required from listed corporations, their officers, directors and big stockholders...
...After 17 years of faithful clerking, Samson Wallach was made cashier of the Stock Exchange firm of Halle & Stieglitz. A dignified man with greying hair, he served eight years in that capacity. Last week he was arrested for defalcation of $329,000. No stockmarket plunger, he had invested in New York City real estate and pleasant living. On a salary cut from $11,000 to $5,400 he paid $3,000 rent for a big house on Long Island, kept two automobiles, two servants. Declared Samson Wallach: "I have never gambled outside of playing the real estate market. I have...