Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alanson J. Donald 2G.B., Manning Emery, III '37, Andrew J. Haire Jr. 1G.B., Joseph L. Hoguet '35, Donald Meiklejohn 1G., Spencer D. Oettinger '35, James A. Potter '34, Hanns C. Schwyzer '34, Allan W. Sherman '34, Maurice M. Stern '35, James H. Taylor 1G., Robert H. Watt 1L., Stan Whitney '34, and May D. Whitney...
...face of such a consideration as this, Whitney's precipitation of the familiar conflict between government by statute and government by permanent commission dwindles into insignificance. The immediate effect of all securities legislation must, practically by definition, be a reduction in the total amount of new flotations. And as this reduction actually takes place, recovery is insofar postponed...
Much shrewder and more to the point, Mr. Whitney last week wrote a letter to each & every one of the 800 corporation heads whose stock is listed on the Exchange. This list, on which the public value places a valuation of $50,000,000,000, is not only a roster of U. S. Big Business but it also blankets most of the work of the nation and the livelihood of millions and millions of people. Through corporation presidents and officers Mr. Whitney was, in effect, aiming his appeal at the smallest stockholder and the lowliest employe. Said...
...What Mr. Whitney wished he could do in addition last week was to sit down and have a heart-to-heart with every small businessman in the land. The Stock Exchange president was sure that he had a case which could win countless little fellows over to his side - the man with the small tool factory in Indianapolis, the owner of a little cannery in California, the proprietor of Grand Rapids' biggest department store. Each of these little corporations had stock which was unlisted on any exchange. The Exchange Bill, as Mr. Whitney wanted to tell each small businessman...
...heels of the Big Board in trying to build up a businessman's counterattack against the Exchange Bill was the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. Able young President E. Burd Grubb, elected only last week, lost no time in emulating President Whitney's methods. President Michael J. O'Brien of the Chicago Stock Exchange, third largest in the U. S., did the same thing.* To businessmen throughout the land who thought that the proposed legislation was no concern of theirs, lawyers, brokers, bankers and dealers preached the same simple gospel...