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...Haines, the combination crew, made up of four upperclassmen and four Freshman substitutes, will leave for Red Top after the examination period. The seatings of the crew, as it went out today were, Stroke--R. H. Martin '34; 7, Richard Stackpole '34; 6, Taggart Whipple '34; 5, S. H. Walcott '33; 4, K. W. Brown '35; 3, J. T. Mendenhall '35; L. P. Jordan '35; bow, D. W. Lewis '35; cox, F. F. Jones...
Hunters. To expedite the investigation, Chairman Peter Norbeck, a onetime South Dakota well-digger, last week organized a sub-committee of five. Besides himself, Senator Norbeck appointed Republicans Couzens and Townsend, Democrats Fletcher and Glass. Conspicuously omitted was President Hoover's good friend Senator Walcott of Connecticut, who started the bear hunt. Washington thought he had tried to soft-pedal the inquiry after trapping more Republicans than Democrats in bear's clothing. Four special investigators and an accounting firm were to be hired. Representative La Guardia's explosive testimony was the subcommittee's first move to broaden the hunt...
Somewhat irked by Mr. Whitney's composed manner and cool utterances, the committee set off on a new angle of inquiry. Senator Walcott of Connecticut, President Hoover's good friend who started the inquiry, had less to say last week, left the conduct of the investigation to Chairman Peter Norbeck (who was in the West when it was voted) and to the committee's new counsel, William A. Gray of Philadelphia. First move of the committee was to publish the names of 350 traders who were short 2,500 or more shares as of April...
...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...