Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepare, he never dropped a question until he got his answer. Yet it was not Banker Morgan who supplied him with most of his facts but Partner George Whitney, tall, handsome, slick-haired brother of President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Whitney (known on Wall Street as "Icicle") gave the committee the impression that he knew more about the House of Morgan than anyone else...
daily necessities, should take orders, in whole or in part, from No. 23 Wall St.? These were questions of policy, not of fact, which the country rather than the Senate committee would have to answer. Though they obviously cannot have it both ways, radicals and half-baked liberals talk in one breath about bankers' "plots" to run the country ruthlessly, and in the next breath they denounce capitalism because it lacks a plan -a "plot" - for running the country at all. But a bankers' "plot" to run the country-or the lack of it- is a very difficult...
...malfeasance or social injustice, was never in better form. 'The days of Teapot Dome never compared with these," he reported. And "the question [of the man on the street] heard everywhere around the Capitol is, 'What chance have we got?' " Pitched to a sustained keynote of Wall Street wickedness. Tucker's stories were masterfully written and made exciting reading. Also in the World Telegram, Pinko Heywood Broun surpassed himself with cynical skits about the House of Morgan and its Friends in high places. Apropos the 1929 letter of Morgan Partner William Ewing by which William...
...died, his son inherited most of a $68,000,000 estate and magnificent art treasures. But what made his inheritance unique and vastly more valuable than any other inheritance in American History was the right to succeed to his father's private banking business at No. 23 Wall Street. Banking being a business of reputation, John Pierpont Morgan II, then 45 and now 65. inherited the world's greatest banking reputation at almost the precise moment when the U. S. was destined to become the financial centre of the world. But the Elder Morgan had also left...
...partners stationed in Manhattan (five manage Drexel & Co. in Philadelphia) work together behind a long row of rolltop mahogany desks on the first floor of No. 23 Wall St., shut off by a glass partition from the banking floor and an area where clerks toil incessantly with calculating machines. By elevator they can go to the floor above where a long corridor decorated with large photographs of partners gives access to private offices where they can go to dictate to secretaries. (The Elder Morgan would tolerate no female stenographers but that day is long past.) Every morning the partners, including...