Word: wyckoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen years ago Wall Street was Arcady for Richard D. Wyckoff. He had a good name-editor and financier. He had a magazine, a big bank book, a glass-topped desk. And he had a pretty brunette for stenographer...
...story is familiar enough in the financial district of New York, where the memory of Wyckoff hovers ghostlike in many an office corner, and the name of Cecelia G. Wyckoff is flaunted fortnightly at the masthead of the Magazine of Wall Street. The chapters of it fall into the following sequence...
...Wyckoff made his debut in the district, getting a job as messenger for a firm of brokers. Clever lad, apt student, he was in due course a broker on his own, functioning in a number of partnerships, promoting innumerable enterprises, among them the Emerson Phonograph Co. By 1907 when he started to publish the Ticker Magazine he had acquired a reputation for smartness and a considerable fortune...
Grand opera was the dream of this girl from Detroit. Between vocalizings, however, she found it necessary to get a job, and she got one in the office of blithe, clever Editor Wyckoff. She became his stenographer and secretary...
Doubles--Hill and Trask defeated Seligson and Trumbull (L.) 6-3, 2-6, 7-5; Whitbeck and Ward defeated Wyckoff and Spangler (L.) 6-2, 6-2; Ingraham and Hamlen defeated Usher and Epstein...