Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitney may well have been surprised, upon reaching Washington last week, to learn the origin of his hurry call. Senator Walcott of Connecticut had, it seemed, received a telegram from no less a personage than Publicist George Barr Baker, faithful friend and volunteer adviser of President Hoover, disclosing the imminence of a "billion-dollar bear raid." The Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, on which Senator Walcott, once a Wall Streeter himself (Bonbright & Co.), is the Administration's spokesman, wanted Mr. Whitney to get up a complete list of persons on the short side of the market, wanted to quiz...
...President Hoover was described by his good friend Senator Walcott as being behind the Senate's investigation of stock exchanges and short sales "absolutely to the limit...
...revealed that when Ethel Barrymore appeared in Washington in The School for Scandal, Senator Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut invited her and Alice Roosevelt Longworth to luncheon, forgot to appear...
While Wall Street knows that Senator Norbeck will do his best to throttle short sales, that Senator Carter Glass will aid and abet him, it hoped for judicial treatment from Connecticut's Senator Frederic Collin Walcott, onetime vice president in the banking house of Bonbright & Co. A close personal and political friend of the President's, Senator Walcott together with Senator James Couzens persuaded the Committee to investigate bulls as well as bears. "We are not seeking sensational-ism," he said. "And we are going about this in a sane way. There is no intention ... to seek legislation interfering with...
...Senators were geographically distributed as follows: Walsh & Coolidge of Massachusetts, Bingham & Walcott of Connecticut, Barbour & Kean of New Jersey, Copeland & Wagner of New York, La Follette & Elaine of Wisconsin, Glenn & Lewis of Illinois. Bulkley of Ohio, Tydings of Maryland, Oddie of Nevada...