Word: lamont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lament with whom conferred Charles E. Mitchell, National City Bank; William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust; Albert H. Wiggin, Chase National Bank; Seward Prosser, Bankers Trust. These men controlled resources of more than $6,000,000,000. They .met briefly; they issued no formal statement. But to newsmen, Mr. Lamont remarked that brokerage houses were in excellent condition, that the liquidation appeared technical rather than fundamental. He also conveyed, without specifically committing himself, the impression that the banks were ready to support the market. And the meeting was hardly over before Hero Whitney had become Heroic...
...Tuesday morning the suspicion that there might be a panic had turned to the apprehension that there was a panic. With the market failing to show even the usual closing rally, it appeared that Messrs. Lamont, Mitchell and their associates had been content to witness a liquidation that might technically be termed orderly but was certainly extremely depressing...
Manhattan. To reporters: "I have been a guest of a nation of all colors and creeds. . . . The official visit is over. . . . I feel that I have returned to a city of adoption." He dined with Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont...
Eagerly they went, wondering whether the House of Morgan was about to issue a counterblast against Governor Roosevelt or had decided to backtrack from the blast of adverse publicity. Neither appeared to be the case. They were received in a most easy manner by Morgan Partners Thomas W. Lamont and Harold Stanley. Mr. Lament, always popular with newsmen, issued the statement...
...Lamont is sincere in his statement, and I have no doubt of the sincerity of anything he says, this merger, that has been so feared and dreaded, may prove the most fortunate development in all the years of the struggle between the State and selfish private interests...