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...bitterly: "The Marines have been driving Sandino's forces directly into the rich mining districts, instead of coming from the mining districts themselves and barring Sandino from entering such valuable territory. . . . My brothers and I are not in politics down there, and we have nothing to do with Wall Street. . . . From the meagre information I have the losses from looting our movable property may run to $100,000; but if the pipe line and mill plant have been destroyed the loss might run to $3,000,000 . . . and the owners would face ruin. ... I guess this is what comes...
...referred specifically only to New York. Would that mean an answer to the report that Wall Street is definitely assured of the ultimate Coolidge acceptance in case of a locked convention (TIME...
George F. Baker, 88, the Grand Old Man of Wall Street, made another speech once, 146 words long (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924). But this time he couldn't get it out. He swallowed once or twice, looked at the great doctor who had tended him for years, then swallowed and said: "I would like to make a speech but I cannot." The crowd clapped and Mr. Baker sat down...
Clarence Walker Barron, 72, plump publisher of The Wall Street Journal, was sued for slander for $100,000 by Princess Margaret Ghika of Rumania, now a resident of Manhattan. She claims that Mr. Barron called her "a spy ... a very dangerous woman" at a dinner party at his home in Cohasset, Mass., last August...
WHEN America's present posperity, and with it all its creations disappear? The question has often been asked, and as often found a new answer. Usually it is the economist who writes, but in this case a son of American prosperity, a Wall street banker, provides an answer which, perhaps because of its very non-scholarly writing, will attract the business...