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...Speyer's personal triumph seemed complete, but on the New York coffee exchange last week many a broker doubted that the loan would go through, "understood" that the Brazilian coffee situation is in such bad shape that J. Henry Schroder & Co. of London were beginning to wonder whether the coffee sword can be stayed, whether a coffee crisis and price slump are not inevitable...
...public, Broker Whitney is remembered for his bid: "$205 for 25,000 Steel"?an act much over-rated in both effect and drama, since Mr. Whitney acted only upon instructions from J. P. Morgan & Co., could not have bid $205 if, as popularly supposed, the last sale had been only $194, and since, as far as saving the market went, the bid might as well have never been made...
...even before this famed transaction, Broker Whitney was very well known in Wall Street. His firm, Richard Whitney & Co., is considered Morgan's broker; he is the younger (age: 41) brother of Morgan-Partner George Whitney. His knowledge of bonds is as thorough and keen as any in the Street. Groton-and-Harvard (1911)-schooled, he goes in for such cultured recreations as breeding Ayrshire cattle and fine hunters at his Somerset County, N. J., farm, although he occasionally foregoes these pleasures for yachting (he is treasurer of the New York Yacht Club). Last January, wearied by Exchange travails...
Arthur Cutten, Chicago broker, employs detectives. Eight years ago nine men broke into his mansion at Downers Grove, Ill., bound his family, stowed him in a basement vault to smother, stole $20,000 worth of jewelry, $500 in cash, 25 cases of whiskey. Last week Mr. Cutten's detectives caught the eighth of his 1922 assailants, one Simon Rosenberg, the gangleader, in Cleveland. Gloated Mr. Cutten: "Number eight! When I get number nine, this one's brother, I'll be through with...
...certain Mr. Midwood, standing among 250,000 people who spread like a dark fungus around the crooked oval that is the Aintree course, the moments between the last jump and the finish must have been trying. Mr. Midwood is a Liverpool cotton broker who never bets on horse races, who once paid $53,000 for Silvio to win the Grand National, but failed, and admits that he does not know the pedigree of Shaun Goilin, whom he calls "a thoroughly Irish horse." As he watched Sir Lindsay and Melleray's Belle moving away, Mr. Midwood may have questioned...