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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Wesley Hanes, 46, is a well-dressed, fun-loving North Carolina squire. The Haneses of Winston-Salem, N. C. are many and substantial. John Wesley is one who, after Yale (1915), made really good in Wall Street as a leading partner of C. D. Barney & Co. He cashed in on marketing Winston-Salem's R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) stock. Relatively, he survived the 1929 crash better than most Wall Streeters. He kept in touch with North Carolina politics and his old friend Democrat Max Gardner (Governor...
Just a year ago John Hanes bobbed up as "Wall Street's man" on the Securities & Exchange Commission. The Senate confirmed him last week as Under Secretary of the Treasury, the job given him last fall by Secretary Morgenthau. With Mr. Morgenthau resting in Florida, John Hanes became, after less than a year of Government service, the Treasury's acting head. Mr. Morgenthau was well content, for as two men of property, probity and conservative tastes, he and John Hanes understand each other well. They agree, for instance, that if the Budget is not balanced some day soon...
...altruistic, Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...
Manhattan kids last week had their first chance to go coasting since Thanksgiving. In its puckish fashion the stock-market also went tobogganing. Somewhat to the confusion of Wall Street, which was generally bullish, prices continued a slide that began with the new year. The Dow-Jones industrial stock average got down to 146.52, barely above the November...
...more than a month Wall Street and Washington have heard that roly-poly Howard Hopson, kingpin of $1,038,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric Co., was so ill he was under an oxygen tent. Since Mr. Hopson has often been "ill" when the Government wanted him for hearings and investigations of his fabulous operations, many a cynic wondered whether the utility magnate's latest indisposition was a portent of further trouble...