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Amid the babel of conflicting opinions during the past week, on the future probabilities in business, one strong and uncompromising attitude became conspicuous. This was the "bearishness" of Wall Street...
...saved the franc by her own efforts, that Mr. J. P. Morgan's $100,000,000 credit (TIME, March 17) had not been needed, that the conditions of the loan had been too severe. Inquiries in Manhattan showed, however, that the well-known medical firm at No. 23 Wall St., Manhattan, had saved the day. Reports originating from the French Ministry of Finance stated that the franc recovered when there was a rush of buyers to cover a shortage, following the operation of one bank, Lazard Frères, in throwing ?3,000,000 on the Paris Bourse...
...George F. Baker?" is a question to which no good answer has ever been given. True, he is in the banking business at No. 2 Wall Street. True, he is twice as rich as the original J. P. Morgan, having a fortune estimated at 200 millions. True, at the age of 84 when he has retired from many directorates, he dominates half a dozen railroads, several banks, scores of industrial concerns. "At a word from him, the 20th Century would halt on its tracks...
Down at No. 23 Wall Street, Manhattan, one Thomas W. Lamont is accustomed to put in a good 8-or 9-hour day working at figures. Now a government, now a railroad, now a tin-can factory must have its figures overhauled and set again on its financial way rejoicing. There is, little time for political speculation in the high philosophic sense...
...that the public begins to see the Oil-Scandal scareheads fading from the newspapers. Now that the air is beginning to clear, Senator La Follette and his iconoclastic apostles are likely to elicit little sympathy with their pointless attack on the new attorney-general. This diligent unearthing of tenuous "Wall Street connections" begins to cloy even the ravenous palates of Western farmers...