Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brigadier General Charles Gates Dawes the New York Stock Exchange is just a "peanut stand" (see p. 12), but to the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency the low price of Wall Street peanuts is a matter of grave concern. Fortnight ago the committee summoned Exchange President Richard Whitney, heard from him that not short selling or bear raids, but liquidation by "people who are trying to give these United States of ours away" is responsible for the currently depressed stock market (TIME, April 25). Last week the committee continued its bear 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...
Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp., famed bear and first witness called by the committee after Mr. Whitney. American Brush Co., headed by G. S. Brush, brother of Matthew. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, known in Wall Street as "No. 1 bear." W. E. Button &; Co., where Smith makes his office. Ludwig Bendix, no relation to Vincent. Miss M. A. Boyle, who was identified as an associate of Bernard Mannes Baruch. financier and Democrat, but denied she held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded...
HARVARD YALE Cadman, f.b. f.b., Taylor Dockery, l.w. l.w., McCrary Potter, c. c., Hall Hartridge, r.w. r.w., Dickenson Whitney, 2nd5/8 2nd5/8, Todd Sherman, 1st5/8 1st5/8, Winter (Capt) Armstrong, s.h. s.h., Miller Schwyzer, w.f. w.f., Petters White, f. f., McArthur Sapienza, f. f., Jenkins Wittausch, f. f., Strange Megaw, f. f., Catlin Oppenheimer, f. f., Heyworth Burrage, f. f., Wilbur Thorburn, f. f., Smead...
...felt by the Crimson players, as will also that of Captain Cabot and Hardy, all three men being out with leg injuries. Stars for the Eli fifteen are expected to be Captain Winter, University hockey player, Taylor, University football star, McCreary, and Heyworth. On the Harvard side Sherman and Whitney are the backs who have shown up particularly well this season, while Megaw and Wittausch have proved among the best forwards. Potter at centre has also played an excellent game...