Word: triede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I don't know whether you are reading a lecture there or not," retorted Mr. Lamont. "I have been in business for many years and I have tried to discharge my duties as a citizen."
But there were problems. As a trustee of the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, Dick Whitney in the summer of 1937 handled certain perfectly legal switchings of its portfolio. With the securities in his hands and creditors on every side, Broker Whitney seemingly could not resist the opportunity to hypothecate them...
Meanwhile, the stockmarket was falling faster than ever before. Dick Whitney got loans on his wife's securities, on those of the Yacht Club. He cadged loans as small as $15,000 from some Wall Street acquaintances, as big as $100,000 from others. He tried to peg Distilled...
Then he was trapped, for the Exchange suddenly decided to require financial statements from all its member firms (as a firm having no margin accounts Richard Whitney & Co. had always avoided this). Dick Whitney tried to bluff his way through by submitting fake figures, but the Exchange sent accountants to...
It broke the careers of most of the men who had anything to do with it. Eight anarchists were tried for murder, and although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were...