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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Adams, Charles, 34
Adams, Evangeline, 148–49 , 163 , 217–18
Adventure in Constructive Finance, An (Glass), 108
Aldrich, Nelson, 360
Aldrich, Winthrop, 359–62 , 383–84 , 389 , 436
Glass and, 383–84 , 386 , 388 , 399
Alleghany Corporation, 33–35 , 169 , 194 , 401 , 402
Allen, Robert, 314
American Bankers Association, 384
American in Paris, An (Gershwin), 53
American Sugar Refining, 84
Anaconda Copper Company, 90 , 150 , 206 , 226 , 276–77 , 316 , 348 , 368 , 374
Anderson, Arthur, 402
antitrust laws, 36 , 97 , 173 , 434
Aquitania , 19–22 , 24 , 32 , 35–47 , 95 , 145 , 169 , 401
Archipenko, Alexander, 259
Associated Press, 90
Astaire, Fred, 187
Astor, Nancy, 419
Astrology: Your Place in the Sun (Adams), 149
AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph Company), 43 , 89 , 223 , 397
Austria, 300
automobile industry, 60 , 61 , 179 , 192 , 250 , 332
Babson, Roger, 163–67 , 193 , 200
Babson Break, 165 , 174
Baker, George F., Jr., 208
Baker, George F., Sr., 228
Baker, Hugh, 2–7 , 223 , 225 , 226 , 229 , 346–47
Baltimore Sun , 294 , 401
Bank Depositors’ League, 422–23
Bankers Trust, 24–25 , 27 , 140
Bank of England, 45 , 175–76 , 300
Bank of Pittsburgh, 303
Bank of United States, 289–91 , 300
banks
emergency loans for, 304 , 321
failures of, 269–70 , 290–92 , 294 , 303 , 308
Glass–Steagall Act and separation of commercial and investment
banking, 311–12 , 331 , 359–66 , 370 , 383–90 , 399 , 405–7 , 421 , 431 , 435 , 436 , 441
government guarantees on deposits in, 312–13 , 387–89 , 407 , 435 , 436
holidays, 332 , 353–55 , 357 , 358 , 366
national, branches of, 365 , 371
national system of, 440
regional, creation of, 415
runs on, 5–6 , 243 , 248 , 270 , 290–92 , 294 , 312 , 320 , 333–34 , 350 , 352–53 , 355 , 357
small, 269–70 , 365
trust in, 268 , 312 , 366
Barrett, Edward F., 257 , 375–76
Barron, Clarence, 69
Bartow, Frank, 214 , 417
Baruch, Bernard, 7 , 34 , 52 , 84–85 , 169 , 185–87 , 226–28 , 313 , 317 , 330
Churchill and, 181–83 , 186–88 , 305–7
Churchill dinner party thrown by, 188 , 226–27
Durant and, 253
Livermore and, 84 , 85
market stabilization plan and, 209
Mitchell and, 161–62 , 227
Raskob and, 125
Wilson and, 84 , 182
Bayonne Times , 154 , 155
Behn, Sosthenes, 172–73
Bell, Elliott V., 91–92 , 433–34
Benedere, Edward C., 45
Bennett, John J., Jr., 348
Berengaria , 216
Bethlehem Steel, 216
Big Six bankers, 213–15 , 220 , 223–24 , 233
Black Monday (October 28), 1–8 , 222–28
Black Thursday (October 24), 202–21 , 263 , 413–14
Black Tuesday (October 29), 10 , 228–36 , 249 , 260
Blyth & Co., 431 , 434
Boca Raton, FL, 155
Bologna, Pat, 203–5
bonds, 33 , 34 , 43 , 49 , 53 , 134 , 191 , 200 , 219 , 416
Boris, Kosta, 70
Boston Globe , 91
Bow, Clara, 11
Bragg, Tom, 99 , 100
Branch, C. R., 315
Brazil, 53
Bridgeman, Oliver, 206 , 213
Brookhart, Smith W., 341–42 , 346
Brooks, John, 392 , 443
Broun, Heywood, 399 , 435–36
bucket shops, 81
Buffalo News , 361
Buick, 60
Byrd, Richard, 262
call money, 43 , 64 , 92 , 105 , 167 , 254 , 295 , 365 , 432
Canada, 176 , 184
Capone, Al, 309 , 324 , 343
Carbonite Company of America, 154
Cary, Robert, 351
Catchings, Waddill, 165
Caterpillar Tractor Company, 206
CBS, 126 , 147
Celanese, 397
Chaplin, Charlie, 11 , 149 , 185 , 186
Chase & Sanborn Coffee, 169
Chase National Bank, 35 , 146 , 156–57 , 172 , 207 , 291 , 294 , 324–25 , 360 , 388 , 436
Chevrolet, Louis-Joseph, 61
Chicago, IL, 178
Chicago Board of Trade, 112
Chicago Tribune , 368
Christmas, 259 , 260 , 280
Chrysler, Walter, 60 , 99 , 114 , 179 , 197 , 421 , 428
Chrysler Building, 179 , 259 , 421
Chrysler Corporation, 179
Churchill, Clementine, 183–86 , 307
Churchill, Jack, 183 , 184
Churchill, Randolph, 183 , 184
Churchill, Winston, 8 , 136 , 181–88 , 236–37 , 305–7 , 420
Baruch and, 181–83 , 186–88 , 305–7
Baruch’s dinner party for, 188 , 226–27
Conservative Party and, 182 , 305 , 307
death of, 420
finances of, 236 , 305 , 307 , 420
Hoover and, 183 , 188
at New York Stock Exchange, 204 , 227
struck by car, 306–7 , 420
war service of, 183
Citigroup, 5
Civilian Conservation Corps, 358
Civil War, 106
Cockburn, Claud, 207 , 210–12
Collier’s , 69
Columbian Carbon, 223
Colville, John “Jock,” 182–83
Congress, U.S., 302 , 304
1930 midterm elections and, 282 , 285 , 287 , 288
see also House of Representatives, U.S. ; Senate, U.S .
Congressional Record , 252
Consolidated Gas, 223 , 250
consumer economy, 10 , 111
Coolidge, Calvin, 12 , 34 , 59 , 66 , 68 , 69 , 72–73 , 140 , 168–70 , 196 , 317 , 355
Hoover and, 66 , 68 , 70–74
Mellon and, 59 , 67 , 69
Coolidge, Grace, 70–74
Corn Exchange Bank, 3 , 157 , 171–73 , 223 , 238–40 , 294
Cortelyou, George B., 250
cotton, 79 , 80 , 86 , 128
County Trust Company, 124 , 150 , 241–44
Couzens, James, 129 , 383 , 340 , 398 , 402–3
Coxe, Alfred C., 367
Crawford, William, 156 , 227
on Black Thursday (October 24), 204 , 206 , 209 , 213
credit, 10–11 , 22 , 43 , 47 , 295 , 432 , 439
decreased availability of, 264 , 268 , 295 , 440
GM and, 61
gold and, 270
Morgan on, 31
stock buying on, 11 , 42–44 , 47–48 , 55–56 , 89 , 127–28 , 167 , 196 , 200 , 242 , 440
Crowther, Samuel, 151
Cuba, 136
Cummings, Homer, 411
curb market, 54 , 430
Curtis, Charles, 71
Cutten, Arthur, 177 , 197
Dache, Harry Edgar, 77–78
Daily Press , 132
Davies, Marion, 185–86
Davis, John, 393 , 395 , 417
Davison, Henry, 24 , 26 , 27 , 32
Dawes, Charles, 310
debt, 14 , 164 , 268
Raskob on, 133 , 134
see also credit
Democratic National Committee (DNC), 121–23 , 125 , 131–32 , 137 , 283 , 315 , 401 , 421
Riordan’s loan to, 241 , 244
Democratic Party, 40 , 103 , 108 , 120 , 121 , 123–25 , 131 , 193 , 252 , 279 , 280 , 282 , 313 , 314 , 317 , 319–22 , 329–31 , 333 , 363
Raskob’s dinner party for elite of, 116–17 , 124 , 131
Roosevelt and, 287 , 288 , 317 , 363
Depression, Great, see Great Depression
District of Columbia Bankers Association, 200–201
Douglas, William O., 415 , 419
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 23 , 43 , 58 , 66 , 80 , 85 , 89 , 104 , 132 , 148 , 154 , 155 , 159 , 161 , 163–65 , 171 , 177 , 196 , 199 , 200 , 225 , 233 , 246 , 263–64 , 284 , 285 , 298 , 303 , 320
on Black Thursday (October 24), 215
DuPont, 118 , 120 , 397
du Pont, Pierre S., 118 , 120 , 122 , 131 , 150 , 155 , 421
du Pont, T. Coleman, 428
Durant, Catherine, 62 , 110 , 129 , 219 , 422 , 424
Durant, Clifford, 425
Durant, Margery, 423–25
Durant, William, 57–64 , 69 , 101 , 110 , 126–30 , 177 , 218–19 , 253–54 , 422–25
as Bank Depositors’ League head, 422–23
Baruch and, 253
death of, 420 , 424
Federal Reserve and, 58 , 126–29 , 147 , 149–50 , 422
financial losses of, 422–24
General Motors and, 61 , 134
Glass and, 111 , 129–30 , 152–53
Hoover and, 64 , 126–27 , 129 , 422
Hoover’s meeting with, 110–11 , 114–15 , 253 , 254 , 479 n
Livermore and, 84
Mitchell and, 57–60 , 64 , 111 , 128 , 147–50 , 152–53
Raymere estate of, 61–62 , 424
RCA and, 99 , 100
stock manipulation by, 62–63 , 423
stock pools and, 63–64 , 150
Durant-Dort Carriage Company, 60
Durant Hotel, 57
Eastern Telegraph Company, 98
Eastman Kodak, 223
Eccles, Marriner S., 432
E. F. Hutton and Co., 81 , 148 , 185 , 186
Egan, Martin, 195 , 262–63 , 273
elections
1928 presidential, 65 , 66 , 69 , 71–72 , 183 , 193 , 318
1930 midterm, 282 , 285 , 287 , 288 , 298
1932 presidential, 288 , 301 , 310 , 317 , 318–21
Empire State Building, 159–61 , 178–80 , 259 , 315 , 420–22
Empress of Australia , 183
England, 20 , 32 , 40 , 140 , 176 , 183 , 184 , 188 , 302 , 303
English, William H., 244
Equitable Trust, 360
Equities Security Company, 132–35 , 151–52
Europe, 176 , 184 , 187 , 300 , 320 , 321 , 323–24 , 332
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay), 227
factories, 13 , 284
Fairbanks, Douglas, 11
farmers and agriculture, 10 , 12 , 75 , 128 , 269 , 289 , 365 , 386 , 387 , 424
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 388–89 , 435 , 436
Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 358
Federal Reserve, 39 , 58 , 64 , 85 , 90–94 , 101 , 104 , 105 , 111–13 , 129 , 148 , 164 , 219 , 247 , 254 , 305 , 325 , 330 , 332 , 353 , 354 , 432–34 , 440
Black Thursday (October 24) and, 214 , 215 , 217
County Trust and, 244
creation of, 39 , 107–8 , 113 , 360 , 364 , 405 , 439
Durant and, 58 , 126–29 , 147 , 149–50 , 422
Glass and, 107–9 , 293–97 , 360 , 364 , 405
Glass’s banking bill and, 312 , 363–65
Index of Industrial Production, 165
interest rates and, 40 , 44–46 , 58 , 88–89 , 101 , 104 , 199 , 214 , 251 , 252 , 295
National City Bank and, 41–43 , 46 , 90–93 , 433
speculators and, 42–46 , 55–56 , 85 , 88 , 111 , 113 , 115 , 127–30 , 157 , 158 , 167 , 252 , 331 , 350 , 432 , 433
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, x , 2 , 38–40 , 44 , 127 , 189 , 434 , 440
Bank of United States and, 291
Mitchell at, 39–41 , 89–94 , 105 , 199 , 224 , 325 , 432
First National Bank, 208 , 228
Fischer, Carl, 426–27
Fisher, Irving, 166 , 191–93 , 198 , 200–201
Fisher brothers, 62
Fleischmann’s Yeast, 169
Fletcher, Duncan, 113 , 356 , 396 , 401
Floyd, William, 273
Forbes , 12 , 49
Forbes, Bertie Charles, 49 , 67 , 297–98
Forbes, Harry, 256–57 , 379
Ford, Henry, 119 , 129 , 338
Hoover and, 250
Ford Motor Company, 129
Fox, William, 88
Fox Film Corporation, 88
France, 20 , 40 , 140 , 272 , 286 , 302
Freeman, R. Austin, 101
Frew, Walter E., 171–72 , 238–39
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 10 , 112 , 434 , 438
garment industry, 290
Garner, John Nance, 313 , 321 , 389
Garrett, Paul Willard, 22
General Electric (GE), 36 , 40 , 69 , 90 , 97 , 176 , 189 , 200 , 223 , 226 , 274 , 284 , 397
General Foods, 146
General Mills, 397
General Motors (GM), 11 , 12 , 43 , 62 , 131 , 167 , 206 , 402 , 424
Assistance Corporation, 61
creation of, 61
Durant and, 61 , 134
Managers Securities Company, 151
Raskob and, 61 , 118–22 , 134 , 151 , 152 , 179 , 315 , 402
Germany, 286 , 320
debt default threat of, 300–302
dirigibles in, 172
Nazi movement in, 142 , 143
in World War I, 188
World War I reparations negotiations with, 19–20 , 24 , 32 , 37 , 97 , 101 , 107 , 138–46 , 182 , 230 , 300 , 401
Gershwin, George, 52–53
Gilbert, Parker, 194 , 371
Glass, Carter, 8–9 , 56 , 94 , 101 , 103–9 , 112 , 129–30 , 152–53 , 157–58 , 316 , 330 , 354 , 358 , 359–66 , 383–90 , 435–37
Aldrich and, 383–84 , 386 , 388 , 399
bank branches idea of, 365 , 371
banking bill of, 311–12 , 359–66 , 383–90 , 399 , 405–7 , 421 , 431 , 435 , 436 , 441
on Black Thursday (October 24), 217
Carter Glass Day and, 407
death of, 420
Durant and, 111 , 129–30 , 152–53
early life of, 106
federal deposit insurance and, 312 , 387–89 , 407 , 435 , 436
Federal Reserve and, 107–9 , 293–97 , 360 , 364 , 405
Hoover and, 311 , 313 , 329
Lamont and, 107 , 478 n
Leffingwell and, 361–62 , 383–84 , 407
Long and, 363–66
memoir of, 108
Mitchell and, 8–9 , 104–5 , 109 , 111–13 , 128 , 130 , 152–53 , 157 , 158 , 217 , 251–53 , 293–97 , 324 , 349–50 , 431–32
Pecora hearings and, 349 , 398–400 , 435–36
poor health of, 103–5 , 329 , 332 , 407 , 436 , 478 n
racial prejudice of, 103–4 , 437
on Raskob, 121
retirement eschewed by, 420 , 436
Roosevelt and, 354–55 , 362–63 , 383–86 , 389 , 405–7
as Roosevelt’s choice for treasury secretary, 329–33 , 385
Senate subcommittee of, 293–97
Smoot–Hawley bill and, 269
speculators and, 56 , 217
Steagall and, 387–89
Wilson and, 108 , 109
Glass, Robert H., 106
Glass–Steagall Act, 311–12 , 359–66 , 383–90 , 399 , 405–7 , 421 , 431 , 435 , 436 , 441
Goddard, Henry W., 373 , 377 , 409 , 410
gold, gold standard, 270 , 303 , 305 , 311 , 320 , 321 , 330 , 332 , 354 , 357 , 386 , 442–43
Goldman Sachs, 16 , 89–90 , 165 , 234
Investment Trust, 165
Gordon, Max, 15
Gorman, Frank, 245
Graf, Lya, 400–401
Great Crash 1929, The (Galbraith), 438
Great Depression, 268 , 270 , 279 , 284 , 303 , 319 , 322 , 442
Greenbaum, E. S., 430
gutter markets, 232
Hamilton, Alexander, 69
Hamlin, Charles Sumner, 432–33 , 478 n
Hand, Frances, 23
Hand, Learned, 23 , 189
Harding, Warren G., 59 , 65 , 66 , 68 , 286 , 442
Harkness, Lamon V., 51
Harrison, George L., 44 , 90–91 , 127 , 189 , 230 , 434
Young and, 46
Harrison, Pat, 243
Harvard Crimson , 24
Hatry, Clarence, 175–76
Hearst, Millicent, 184 , 186
Hearst, William Randolph, 136–37 , 184–86
Hoover and, 249
Hitler, Adolf, 418
Hoover, Herbert, 59–60 , 64 , 66–68 , 120 , 122 , 140 , 157 , 167–70 , 179 , 193–96 , 219 , 220 , 267–70 , 280 , 282–87 , 298–99 , 303 , 308–14 , 316 , 321 , 322 , 352 , 420 , 441–42
banking holiday and, 353–55 , 357
on capitalism, 285 , 507 n
Churchill and, 183 , 188
Coolidge and, 66 , 68 , 70–74
death of, 420
Durant and, 64 , 126–27 , 129 , 422
Durant’s meeting with, 110–11 , 114–15 , 253 , 254 , 479 n
federal budget and, 287
Ford and, 250
German debt default and, 300–301
Glass and, 311 , 313 , 329
Glass–Steagall Act and, 311–12
Hearst and, 249
inauguration of, 59 , 64 , 65–67 , 70 , 72–75 , 76 , 89 , 355
Josephson on, 275
Joslin and, 352–53
Lamont and, 169–70 , 191–96 , 199 , 219 , 248 , 269 , 300–301
Leffingwell and, 191 , 193–94
MacLafferty and, 282–83
meeting of bankers and insurance executives called by, 303–4
Mellon and, 67 , 69–70 , 168–69 , 247 , 248 , 250–51 , 302–4 , 308–11
Michelson and, 283
Mitchell and, 59 , 64 , 351
in presidential election of 1928, 65 , 66 , 69 , 183 , 193 , 318
in presidential election of 1932, 301 , 310 , 317 , 318–21
press and, 283 , 285 , 287 , 302 , 442
press conferences of, 299
Raskob and, 116 , 117 , 124 , 131 , 135–37 , 278–81 , 313
Reconstruction Finance Corporation created by, 310 , 313 , 321
Reed and, 334
Roosevelt and, 287–89 , 317 , 319–20 , 332–34 , 352–55
Roosevelt’s letter from, 327–29 , 331 , 333
short sellers as viewed by, 313–14
Smoot and, 130
Smoot–Hawley bill and, 269
speculators and, 167 , 168 , 313
stock market crash and, 247–51 , 253
stock speculation and, 167 , 168 , 313 , 489 n
on unemployment, 299
Walcott and, 314
war relief efforts of, 188 , 420 , 441
White on, 251
Whitney and, 313–14
Hoover, Lou, 65 , 70 , 71 , 73 , 74
Hoovervilles, 283 , 297 , 425
House of Representatives, U.S., 279 , 282 , 319 , 387–88
Pujo Committee, 29–31 , 107 , 322 , 393 , 404
Houser Associates, 318
Howe, Louis, 288
Huddleston, Sisley, 140
Hull, Cordell, 354
Humble Oil, 146
Hutton, E. F., 70
E. F. Hutton and Co., 81 , 148 , 185 , 186
immigrants, 13 , 290 , 298
National Origins Act and, 323–24
Index of Industrial Production, 165
industrialization, 13
Industrial Rayon Corporation, 111
inflation, 330 , 331 , 333
interest rates, 40 , 44–46 , 58 , 88–89 , 101 , 104 , 199 , 214 , 251 , 252 , 295 , 422 , 440
International Acceptance Bank, 113
International Chamber of Commerce, 54
In the Nation’s Capital , 278–80
Irving Trust, 216
ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph), 172 , 397
in merger with RCA and Western Union, 36–37 , 95–98 , 100–101 , 173
Jackson, Stonewall, 106
James, George R., 93
J. A. Sisto & Co., 273
Jekyll Island, 107
Johnson, Hiram, 73
Jones, Jesse, 354
Josephson, Matthew, 273–75
Joslin, Theodore, 309 , 352–53
J.P. Morgan & Co. (House of Morgan), 19–25 , 28 , 35 , 53 , 54 , 80 , 101 , 105 , 107 , 141 , 146 , 159 , 169 , 193–95 , 224 , 233 , 271 , 272 , 321 , 331 , 354 , 371 , 415 , 416 , 419 , 435
Alleghany Corporation and, 33–35 , 169 , 194 , 401 , 402
Black Thursday (October 24) and, 208 , 209 , 213–14
client selection at, 396–97
cutbacks at, 394
deposit accounts and net worth of, 397
discounted stock offered by, 401–2
Douglas on, 415
ethos of, 23–24 , 28 , 394
Glass’s banking bill and, 359–63 , 383 , 399 , 407
insider loans from, 395
investment pools and, 63
Jack Morgan’s powers at, 395
Lamont’s joining of, 27–28
Mitchell’s loan from, 372 , 375 , 379–80 , 395 , 431
and Mitchell’s purchase of National City shares, 229 , 230
and Mitchell’s sale of National City shares to his wife, 256–58
Pecora hearings and, 391–404
press and, 28–30
public interactions of, 395–96
shares sold during the panic by, 271–72
Standard Brands and, 169 , 401
taxes evaded by partners at, 397–98 , 400
United Corporation and, 169 , 194
Justice Department, U.S., 315 , 369 , 419 , 430
Keene, James R., 227
Kelley, Ed, 428
Kellogg–Briand Pact, 190 , 286
Kennedy, Joseph, 267 , 414 , 415
Kenny, Bill, 242
Keynes, John Maynard, 63 , 268
Ladies’ Home Journal , 151
La Guardia, Fiorello, 260
laissez-faire approach, 12 , 168 , 299
Lamb, William, 177 , 178
Lamont, Austin, 23 , 28 , 141
Lamont, Corliss, 28 , 463 n
Lamont, Eleanor, 28 , 221 , 463 n
Lamont, Florence, 19 , 23 , 24 , 28 , 139 , 141 , 190 , 271 , 394 , 416–17
letter to Thomas from, 462 n
Lamont, Thomas Stilwell (Tom), 22 , 23 , 28 , 146 , 169 , 417
Pecora hearings and, 393 , 398
Lamont, Thomas W., 19–37 , 40 , 54 , 95–102 , 105 , 169 , 220 , 221 , 226 , 262 , 271–73 , 331 , 369–72 , 394 , 416–17
Anderson’s memo from, 402
on Aquitania , 19–22 , 24 , 32 , 35–47 , 95 , 145 , 169 , 401
Bank of United States and, 291
becomes J.P. Morgan partner, 27–28
in Big Six, 213–15 , 220 , 233
on Black Thursday (October 24), 202–3 , 206–10 , 213–15
death of, 420
dinner hosted by, 189–90
early life of, 24
Florence’s letter to, 462 n
German debt default and, 300–301
in German reparations negotiations, 19–20 , 24 , 32 , 37 , 97 , 107 , 138–46 , 182 , 230 , 300 , 401
Glass and, 107 , 478 n
Hoover and, 169–70 , 191–96 , 199 , 219 , 248 , 269 , 300–301
Jack Morgan and, 20–23 , 196 , 238–40
J. Pierpont Morgan and, 26–30 , 392
Leffingwell and, 101–2 , 189–91 , 194 , 272
in market stabilization plan, 208–9
Mitchell and, 229–30 , 257 , 372
Mussolini and, 21 , 272 , 418
in New York Stock Exchange secret meeting, 230–31 , 233
Ochs and, 403
Panic of 1907 and, 26–27
Pearson on, 392
Pecora hearings and, 391–94 , 401 , 403–4
press and, 28–30
RCA/Western Union/ITT merger of, 36–37 , 95–98 , 100–101 , 173
Roosevelt and, 353–55 , 369–71 , 415
sixtieth birthday of, 271 , 273
Smoot–Hawley bill and, 269
speculation and, 194–95 , 199
Torrey Cliff estate of, 271 , 505 n
Whitney brothers and, 413–19
Wilson and, 107
Woodin and, 369
yacht of, 271
Lawrence, Joseph Stagg, 112
Leef, Charles, 400
Lefèvre, Edwin, 173 , 209
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator , 77 , 173 , 209
Leffingwell, Russell Cornell, 104 , 105 , 195–96 , 331 , 371
Glass and, 361–62 , 383–84 , 407
Hoover and, 191 , 193–94
Lamont and, 101–2 , 189–91 , 194 , 272
Lehman, Herbert H., 124 , 355
Lehman Brothers, 124
Leviathan , 159
Levine, Michael, 203
Levinson, Salmon, 285–86
Lindbergh, Charles, 11 , 21 , 34
Lippmann, Faye, 23 , 394
Lippmann, Walter, 23 , 145 , 349 , 394 , 403
Literary Digest , 151
Livermore, Dorothy “Mousie,” 174–76 , 235–36 , 245 , 426
Livermore, Harriet, 425–29
Livermore, Jesse, 76–87 , 153–55 , 162 , 173–76 , 185 , 197–98 , 218–19 , 235–36 , 245–46 , 425–29
Baruch and, 84 , 85
on Black Thursday (October 24), 219
book written by, 173–74 , 176
cotton market and, 79 , 80 , 86
Dache and, 77–78
Durant and, 84
early life of, 80–81
financial losses of, 425–26 , 429
lawsuits against, 154–55
marriage of, 174–75
New York Times and, 197–98
press and, 76–80 , 86 , 245–46
in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator , 77 , 173
Senate testimony of, 315
short selling by, 82–83 , 86 , 87 , 236 , 245
speculation and, 83 , 84 , 197
stock tickers and, 78–79 , 81
suicide of, 427–29
wheat trade of, 428–29
Livermore, Paul, 428
loans
call, 43 , 64 , 92 , 105 , 167 , 254 , 295 , 365 , 432
see also credit
London Stock Exchange, 176
Lonergan, Augustine, 364
Long, Huey, 363–66
Lord, Walter, 443
Los Angeles Times , 166
Louis XIV, 140
Lynch, Eddie, 55
MacDonald, Ramsay, 170 , 182 , 189 , 190
Mackay, Charles, 227
MacLafferty, James, 282–83
Mallon, Paul, 384
Marconi, Guglielmo, 96
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 98
Marion Leader-Tribune , 279
Marx, Groucho, 14–16
Mauretania , 141
McKellar, Kenneth, 67
Medalie, George Z., 368 , 374–77 , 381–82 , 410 , 411
Medina, Harold R., 434
Meehan, Elizabeth, 99 , 100
Meehan, Michael, 98–100 , 119 , 150 , 158–59 , 216 , 263 , 315 , 316
Meeker, Royal, 158
Mellon, Andrew, 59 , 67–69 , 171 , 215 , 270 , 275 , 308–11 , 357
ambassadorship of, 310–11
Bank of Pittsburgh and, 303
Germany’s debt and, 302
Hoover and, 67 , 69–70 , 168–69 , 247 , 248 , 250–51 , 302–4 , 308–11
in meeting of bankers and insurance executives, 303–4
Patman and, 309–10
Reconstruction Finance Corporation and, 310
Mellon, Paul, 302 , 303
Mellon National Bank, 357
Merrill, Charles, 55 , 215–16
Merrill Lynch, 55 , 215–16
Mexico, 272
Meyer, Agnes, 385
Meyer, Eugene, 226 , 385
Michelson, Charley, 135–37 , 278–79
DNC and, 137 , 283
Hoover and, 283
midterm elections of 1930, 282 , 285 , 287 , 288 , 298
Miller, Adolph C., 93
Mills, Ogden L., 247 , 248 , 311 , 333 , 352
Minas Gerais, 53
Mitchell, Charles, 1–10 , 25 , 34 , 38–56 , 88–94 , 101 , 104 , 147–50 , 155–57 , 193 , 199 , 222–26 , 268 , 297 , 336 , 355 , 359 , 370 , 385 , 429–35
Anaconda Copper and, 150 , 277 , 316 , 368 , 374
in antitrust lawsuit, 434
Baker and, 2–7
Bank of United States and, 291
Baruch and, 161–62 , 227
Bell and, 91–92
in Big Six, 213–15 , 220 , 223–24
birthday celebration of, 172–73
on Black Thursday (October 24), 207–10 , 214
at Blyth & Co., 430–31 , 434
Bologna and, 204
in college, 48 , 49
consulting firm of, 430
Corn Exchange Bank merger and, 3 , 157 , 171–73 , 223 , 238–40
death of, 420
debts of, 336 , 350 , 372 , 375 , 379–80 , 429–30 , 434
Durant and, 57–60 , 64 , 111 , 128 , 147–50 , 152–53
European vacations of, 171–73 , 192–93 , 198–99
Forbes and, 49 , 297–98
Germany and, 300
Glass and, 8–9 , 104–5 , 109 , 111–13 , 128 , 130 , 152–53 , 157 , 158 , 217 , 251–53 , 293–97 , 324 , 349–50 , 431–32
Hilldale estate of, 51–52
Hoover and, 59 , 64 , 351
J.P. Morgan loan to, 372 , 375 , 379–80 , 395 , 431
Lamont and, 229–30 , 257 , 372
marriage of, 48–49
Mellon and, 59–60
Mussolini and, 324
National City Bank and, see National City Bank
at New York Fed, 39–41 , 89–94 , 105 , 199 , 224 , 325 , 432
Panic of 1907 and, 6 , 25
Raskob and, 152
Rentschler and, 228–29
Roosevelt and, 351 , 368
Senate testimonies of, 315–16 , 431
Senate testimony in Pecora hearings, 325 , 335–43 , 344–51 , 367 , 369
Sherrod and, 276–77
on speculators, 54 , 93 , 94 , 126 , 193
stock market crash blamed on, 252–53 , 374 , 431
stock market intervention of, 90–93 , 104 , 105 , 128 , 172
Strong and, 40–41
tax evasion arrest and indictment of, 341 , 342 , 367–69 , 398
tax evasion civil suit against, 430
tax evasion criminal trial of, 369 , 373–82 , 407 , 408–12 , 430
wealth of, 51 , 255 , 338 , 339 , 350
Wiggin and, 156–57
Mitchell, Craig, 9 , 431
Mitchell, Elizabeth, 9 , 48–49 , 51–53 , 171 , 336 , 367 , 430
Charles’s tax evasion trial and, 377 , 411
National City shares and, 256–57 , 342–43 , 344 , 368 , 374 , 376–81
pool stock transactions of, 375
Mitchell, Rita, 9 , 336 , 431
Mizner, Addison and Wilson, 155
M.J. Meehan & Company, 158–59
Moley, Raymond, 327–29 , 354
Montgomery Ward, 205 , 211 , 397
Mont Royal , 184
Morgan, Henry, 22
Morgan, J. P., Jr. (Jack), 20–21 , 23 , 31–32 , 37 , 101–2 , 139 , 144 , 199 , 371 , 384
Aldrich and, 383
attempted kidnapping of, 32
on Black Thursday (October 24), 206
death of, 420
Graf and, 400–401
House of Morgan powers of, 395
Lamont and, 20–23 , 196 , 238–40
Pecora hearings and, 391 , 393–98 , 400 , 402 , 404
Sarnoff and, 144
tax evasion by, 397
Whitney brothers and, 416 , 417
yacht of, 159 , 394
Morgan, J. P., Sr. (J. Pierpont), 20 , 25–32 , 83 , 92 , 149 , 245 , 391 , 393 , 404
death of, 31
journalists and, 274
Lamont and, 26–30 , 393
Panic of 1907 and, 25–27 , 49 , 207 , 233
Pujo Committee testimony of, 29–31 , 107 , 322 , 393
yacht of, 159
Morgan & Co., see J.P. Morgan & Co.
Morgan, Grenfell & Co., 393
Morrow, Dwight, 23
Morrow, Elizabeth, 23
Moses, George, 70–71
Mount Rushmore, 314
movie industry, 88
Mulligan, Raymond J., 367
Muskegon Chronicle , 411
Mussolini, Benito, 21 , 272 , 274 , 324 , 418
Napoleon, 140 , 519 n
Nast, Condé, 52 , 187
Nast, Leslie, 187
National Business Conference, 164
National City Bank, 41–43 , 46 , 47 , 49–51 , 53 , 55 , 105 , 128 , 148 , 156 , 172 , 173 , 222 , 336–37 , 370 , 371 , 374 , 431–33
Anaconda Copper and, 150 , 276–77 , 316 , 348
on Black Monday (October 28), 1–8 , 222–28
Blyth and, 434
bonds and, 53
bonuses at, 348
Corn Exchange Bank and, 3 , 157 , 171–73 , 223 , 238–40 , 294
delisted from New York Stock Exchange, 54
deposits and branches of, 50 , 172
Elizabeth Mitchell and, 256–57 , 342–43 , 344 , 368 , 374 , 376–81
Federal Reserve and, 41–43 , 46 , 90–93 , 433
fund for executives at, 345–46
Glass’s subcommittee and, 294
investment pools and, 63
Mitchell elected president of, 49
Mitchell’s address to shareholders of, 294–95
Mitchell’s March 1929 actions and, 91–92 , 432–34
Mitchell’s purchases and sales of shares of, 9–10 , 229–30 , 255–57 , 340–43 , 368 , 374 , 376–81
Mitchell’s resignation from, 350–51
Mitchell’s salary and bonuses from, 51 , 255 , 338 , 339 , 350
Mitchell’s Senate testimonies on, 315–16 , 335–43 , 344–51
Pecora and, 324–26
salesmen’s salaries at, 337–38
shares of, 3–4 , 9–10 , 54 , 157 , 203 , 225–26 , 228–30 , 238 , 239 , 255–58
Sherrod at, 276
National City Company, 42–43 , 49 , 346
breaks from National City Bank, 359–60
National Origins Act, 323–24
Nazi movement, 142 , 143
NBC, 278 , 421
New Jersey, 336
Newman Brothers & Worms, 14
New Republic , 273–74
New York, NY, 12–13 , 24 , 25 , 178–79 , 189 , 259–60 , 287 , 420
Christmas in, 259 , 260
Chrysler Building in, 179 , 259 , 421
Empire State Building in, 159–61 , 178–80 , 259 , 315 , 420–22
Rockefeller Center in, 278 , 421
Tammany Hall in, 261 , 289
Walker as mayor of, 260–61
New York Daily News, 8 , 99
New Yorker , 260 , 275 , 392
New York Evening Post , 22 , 132
New York Evening World , 152
New York Herald Tribune , 79–80 , 91–92 , 95 , 97 , 330
New York Stock Exchange, 5 , 13 , 54 , 55 , 86 , 89 , 98 , 100 , 112 , 167 , 231–32 , 417 , 440
on Black Thursday (October 24), 202–6 , 213–15
carvings on building of, 222
Churchill at, 204 , 227
closing of, 353 , 358
end of trading in 1929, 263
Gratuity Fund of, 416
March 26 break at, 88–94 , 432
National City Bank delisted from, 54
secret meeting at, 231–33
special holidays at, 233
speculation and, 313
Whitney and, 413 , 414 , 417–18
New York Sun , 229–30
New York Times , 8 , 56 , 85 , 95 , 101 , 114 , 124 , 138–39 , 154 , 164 , 172 , 200 , 233 , 261–62 , 290 , 292 , 332 , 359 , 368 , 401
Black Thursday (October 24) and, 220–21 , 263
Durant’s speech in, 128–29
Glass’s piece in, 158
Hoover and, 302
Lamont and, 272
Livermore and, 197–98 , 246
Morgan appointments and, 22
Pecora hearings and, 403
Raskob and, 122–23
Rogers letter in, 389–90
New York Times Book Review , 149
New-York Tribune , 24
New York World , 23 , 135–37 , 226
New York World-Telegram , 253–54
New York Yacht Club, 417
Night to Remember, A (Lord), 443
Norbeck, Peter, 314 , 316 , 322–25 , 345 , 396
Norman, Montagu, 176
Norris, George, 113
North American Review , 261
Noyes, Alexander D., 114 , 292
O’Brien, Howard Vincent, 373
Ochs, Adolph, 403
Olmsted Brothers, 51
Olympic , 171
Otis Elevator Company, 223
Owen, Robert L., 112
Paine Webber, 80–81
Paley, William S., 126
panics and crashes, 264
of 1873, 232
of 1907, 6 , 25–27 , 29 , 49 , 83 , 207 , 210 , 233 , 387 , 439
of 1914, 232
of 1920–1921, 40 , 83 , 249 , 286 , 387 , 441–42
of 1929, see Wall Street Crash of 1929
of 1937, 414
paradox of thrift, 268
Paris Peace Conference, 20 , 182
Patman, Wright, 309–10
Pearson, Drew, 314 , 392
Pecora, Ferdinand, 323 , 420 , 436
Senate hearings of, 323–26 , 335–43 , 344–51 , 367 , 369 , 371 , 391–404 , 414 , 421 , 431 , 435–36 , 441
special allowance proposed for, 436 , 538 n
People vs. Wall Street (Floyd), 273
Perkins, Frances, 119
Pershing, John J., 34
Philadelphia Record , 349
Pickford, Mary, 149
Pierson, Lewis, 216–17
Plaza Hotel, 147 , 148 , 152 , 153 , 160 , 181 , 236
Potter, William C., 208
presidential election of 1928, 65 , 66 , 69 , 71–72 , 183 , 193 , 318
presidential election of 1932, 288 , 301 , 310 , 317 , 318–21
President’s Conference on Unemployment, 286
Prohibition, 75 , 111 , 120 , 123 , 148 , 192 , 317 , 319 , 426
Prosser, Seward, 208
Pujo, Arsène P., 29
Pujo Committee, 29–31 , 107 , 322 , 393 , 404
Purchasing Agents Association, 191–92
radio, 96–97 , 111 , 442
Raskob, John J., 34 , 116–25 , 131–37 , 150 , 151 , 177–78 , 317 , 401
Baruch and, 125
Depression blamed on, 279
as DNC chairman, 121–23 , 125 , 131–32 , 315 , 401 , 421
du Pont and, 118 , 120 , 122 , 131 , 421
early life of, 118
Empire State Building and, 161 , 178–80 , 259 , 315 , 420–22
Equities Security Company of, 132–35 , 151–52
five-day workweek proposed by, 261 , 280
General Motors and, 61 , 118–22 , 134 , 151 , 152 , 179 , 315 , 402
Hoover and, 116 , 117 , 124 , 131 , 135–37 , 278–81 , 313
lunches and dinners hosted by, 116–17 , 124 , 131 , 177–78 , 180
Michelson and, 135–37 , 278–79
Mitchell and, 152
press and, 280
radio address of, 278–80
Riordan and, 241–45
Senate testimony of, 315
Shouse and, 131 , 135 , 137
Smith and, 116 , 117 , 119–23 , 179 , 241
speculation and, 243 , 279
taxes of, 421–22
Whitney and, 401–2
Raskob, William, 121
RCA (Radio Corporation of America), 15 , 43 , 96–100 , 119 , 121 , 141 , 150 , 176 , 196 , 242 , 316
in merger with ITT and Western Union, 36–37 , 95–98 , 100–101 , 173
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 310 , 313 , 321
Reed, David A., 334
regulation, 128 , 129 , 191 , 219 , 323 , 326 , 358 , 361 , 363–64 , 444
Reichsbank, 102
Remington, Frederic, 136
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Lefèvre), 77 , 173 , 209
Rend, Joseph, 256 , 381
Rend, William P., 48
Rentschler, George Adam, 431
Rentschler, Gordon, 6–7 , 9–10 , 225 , 226 , 228–29 , 431
Senate testimony of, 345–46
Rentschler, Rita Mitchell, 9 , 336 , 431
Republican National Committee, 169 , 318
Republican National Convention, 317
Republican Party, 72 , 107 , 120 , 123 , 252 , 260 , 282 , 288 , 289 , 309 , 312 , 314–17 , 320–22 , 327 , 334
Richey, Lawrence, 110
Riordan, James J., 124 , 150 , 241–45
suicide of, 241–44 , 501 n
Robertson, Arthur A., 234 , 425–26
Robinson, Arthur, 243 , 279
Robinson, Edward, 357
Robinson, Henry M., 193 , 194 , 219–20
Robinson, Joseph, 116
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 189 , 190 , 360
Rockefeller, John D., Sr., 119 , 216
Rockefeller Center, 278 , 421
Rockefeller family, 274 , 360–62 , 399
Rogers, Will, 88 , 389–90
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 119 , 121 , 123 , 270 , 314 , 316 , 321 , 322 , 330 , 352–58 , 415 , 421 , 442–43
Aldrich and, 362 , 383–84 , 389 , 436
bank deposit guarantee and, 387
bank holiday and, 354 , 355 , 357–58 , 366
Chicago speeches of, 288–89
fireside chats of, 366
at gala, 327–29
Glass and, 354–55 , 362–63 , 383–86 , 389 , 405–7
Glass pressured to accept treasury secretary post by, 329–33 , 385
Glass’s banking bill and, 383–84 , 389 , 436
gold standard and, 357 , 386 , 442–43
Hoover and, 287–89 , 317 , 319–20 , 332–34 , 352–55
Hoover’s letter to, 327–29 , 331 , 333
Howe and, 288
inaugural speech of, 355–56
inauguration of, 326 , 348 , 352 , 355–56
Lamont and, 353–55 , 369–71 , 415
Mitchell and, 351 , 368
Moley and, 327
New Deal of, 334 , 415 , 421
polio of, 317
in presidential election of 1932, 288 , 317 , 318–21
reelection as governor, 287 , 289
Securities and Exchange Commission law signed by, 414
Woodin named treasury secretary by, 332–33
Root, Elihu, 189
Royal Baking Powder, 169
Ruth, Babe, 11
Ryan, John D., 226
Sachs, Walter, 165
Saks Fifth Avenue, 259
Salvation Army, 259
San Francisco earthquake, 82–83
San Francisco Examiner , 136–37
Sarnoff, David, 36 , 141–45
Sarnoff, Lizette, 145
Saturday Evening Post , 209
Scapegoats (Sherrod), 276–77
Schacht, Hjalmar, 102 , 140–44
Schwab, Charles M., 85 , 184 , 186 , 188 , 226
Scribner’s Magazine , 137 , 278–79
Scrobogna, Aristo, 253
Sears, Roebuck & Co., 11 , 43
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 414 , 415 , 418 , 419
segregation, 103–4
Senate, U.S., 243 , 251 , 252 , 269 , 279 , 282 , 309 , 311 , 314 , 319 , 322 , 329 , 338
Finance Committee, 316
Senate Banking and Currency Committee, 94 , 113 , 314–16 , 322 , 330 , 356–57 , 362
Glass’s subcommittee of, 293–97
Mitchell’s testimonies before, 315–16 , 325 , 335–43 , 344–51 , 367 , 369
Pecora hearings of, 323–26 , 335–43 , 344–51 , 367 , 369 , 371 , 391–404 , 414 , 421 , 431 , 435–36 , 441
Sherman Antitrust Act, 97
Sherrod, Julian, 275–77
Sherry-Netherland Hotel, 234 , 426–27
Shouse, Jouett, 131 , 135 , 137
Simmons, E. H. H., 89 , 208 , 263
Simmons, Furnifold M., 252
Sisson, Francis, 385
Sloan, Alfred, 122
Smith, Al, 70 , 132 , 150 , 241
Empire State Building and, 159–61 , 178 , 179 , 421
in presidential election, 66 , 69 , 183
Raskob and, 116 , 117 , 119–23 , 179 , 241
Riordan and, 241 , 242 , 244
Smith, Ben, 99 , 100 , 267–68 , 275
Smith, F. Marion, 411–12
Smoot, Reed Owen, 69 , 130
Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act, 130 , 153 , 251 , 269 , 300
Socialist Party, 260
South Pole, 262
Sparling, Earl, 253–54
speculators, speculation, 42–46 , 50 , 62 , 68 , 75 , 84 , 105 , 107 , 109 , 112 , 113 , 129–30 , 152 , 153 , 155 , 156 , 158 , 167 , 191 , 196 , 228 , 249 , 252 , 297 , 347 , 414 , 433 , 439
capital gains taxes and, 280 , 296
Durant and, 57
explosion in loans to, 167
Federal Reserve and, 42–46 , 55–56 , 85 , 88 , 111 , 113 , 115 , 127–30 , 157 , 158 , 167 , 252 , 331 , 350 , 432 , 433
Glass and, 56 , 217
Hoover and, 167 , 168 , 313 , 489 n
Lamont and, 194–95 , 199
Livermore and, 83 , 84 , 197
Mellon on, 251
Mitchell on, 54 , 93 , 94 , 126 , 193
Raskob and, 243 , 279
Securities and Exchange Commission and, 414
and separation of commercial and investment banking, 312
tariff bill and, 130
Whitney and, 212
Spencer Churchill, John, 183
Speyer, Edgar, 210–12
Speyer & Co., 211
Standard Brands, 169 , 401
Standard Oil, 43 , 51 , 274 , 397
Steagall, Henry B., 311–13 , 386–89 , 436
Glass and, 387–89
Glass–Steagall Act, 311–12 , 359–66 , 383–90 , 399 , 405–7 , 421 , 431 , 435 , 436 , 441
steel industry, 303
see also U.S. Steel
Steuer, Max D., 368–69 , 373–77 , 379–82 , 408 , 410–11
stock markets, 13 , 176
stock tickers, 78–79 , 81 , 89 , 232
stock trading, 13 , 444
boom in, 127–28
bucket shops and, 81
buying on credit (margin trading), 11 , 42–44 , 47–48 , 55–56 , 89 , 127–28 , 167 , 196 , 200 , 242 , 440
curb market and, 54 , 430
insider, 370
in investor pools, 63–64 , 84 , 150 , 196 , 313 , 316 , 370 , 375 , 414 , 423
large transactions in, 167
1921 mini-crash and, 83
off-exchange, 5
short selling in, 82–83 , 86 , 87 , 236 , 245 , 280–81 , 285–86 , 313–14 , 444
speculators in, see speculators, speculation
women in, 45
Stork Club, 425 , 426
Stotesbury, E. T., 190
Strakosch, Henry, 420
Strauss, Frederick, 402
Strauss, Lewis, 318
Strong, Benjamin, 40–41 , 93 , 440
Sulzberger, Arthur H., 124
Supreme Court, U.S., 112 , 377 , 422
Survey of Current Business , 286
Swaine, Robert T., 380
Swanson, Gloria, 187
Swope, Gerard, 226
Swope, Herbert, 226 , 228
Taft, William Howard, 74
Tammany Hall, 261 , 289
Tarbell, Ida, 274
taxes, 286 , 287 , 298
capital gains, 280 , 296
tax evasion, 343
Jack Morgan and, 397
Mitchell’s arrest and indictment for, 341 , 342 , 367–69 , 398
Mitchell’s trial for, 369 , 373–82 , 407 , 408–12 , 430
Mitchell sued by Justice Department for, 430
Morgan partners and, 397–98 , 400
Raskob and, 421–22
Taylor, Myron C., 190
Tennessee Valley Authority, 358
Texas Gulf Sulphur, 397
Thompson, Samuel Huston, 362
thrift, paradox of, 268
Tilson, John Q., 279
Time , 12 , 21 , 123 , 274 , 351 , 366 , 414 , 442
Times (London), 66 , 207
Titanic , 443
Trading with the Enemy Act, 354
Treasury Department, U.S., 68–69 , 130 , 193 , 275 , 309 , 332 , 353 , 361 , 363 , 426
Glass as Roosevelt’s choice for secretary of, 329–33 , 385
Woodin named secretary of, 332–33
Treatise on Money, A (Keynes), 268
Trust Company of America, 6 , 49
Tucker, Ray, 400
Tuttle, Charles, 289
unemployment, 40 , 262 , 268 , 275 , 284 , 286 , 299 , 309
Union Carbide, 16
Union Pacific Railroad, 82
United Corporation, 169 , 194
United Fruit, 428
Untermyer, Samuel, 29–31 , 322–23 , 404
U.S. Steel, 12 , 43 , 176 , 189 , 223 , 397
Black Thursday (October 24) and, 206 , 213 , 413–14
Van Antwerp, William, 185
Vandenberg, Arthur, 389
Van Sweringen, Oris and Mantis, 33 , 35 , 177 , 321
Victor Talking Machine Company, 141
Voit, Eugene, 426 , 427
WABC, 126
Walcott, Frederic, 314
Waldorf Astoria, 160 , 305
Walker, Jimmy, 145–46 , 260–61
Walker & Gillette, 52
Wall Street Crash of 1929
avoidability of, 439–40
Big Six bankers and, 213–15 , 220 , 223–24 , 233
effects of, 242 , 268 , 284 , 438–39 , 443–44
Great Depression following, 268 , 270 , 279 , 284 , 303 , 319 , 322 , 442
October 24 (Black Thursday), 202–21 , 263 , 413–14
October 28 (Black Monday), 1–8 , 222–28
October 29 (Black Tuesday), 10 , 228–36 , 249 , 260
suicides and, 234 , 236 , 241–44 , 438
Wall Street Journal , 99 , 100 , 208
Warburg, Paul M., 113–14
War Industries Board, 84
Warner Bros. Pictures, 152
Washington, George, 202
Washington Post , 252
wash sales, 398 , 411 , 421–22
WEAF, 278
wealth, 11–12 , 25 , 179
Weinberg, Sidney J., 234
Wells, H. G., xi
Western Union, 228
in merger with RCA and ITT, 36–37 , 95–98 , 100–101 , 173
Westinghouse, 199–200
Wheeler, Burton K., 348
White, E. B., 260
White, William Allen, 251
White Act, 97 , 98
Whitney, George, 208 , 212 , 214 , 229–31 , 233 , 257 , 371 , 401–3 , 419
Lamont and, 314–19
Raskob and, 401–2
Richard’s troubles and, 413–19
Whitney, Richard, 115 , 223 , 232 , 268 , 269 , 315 , 401 , 413–19 , 423 , 441
on Black Thursday (October 24), 204 , 208 , 209 , 212–13 , 219 , 220 , 413–14
bond trading firm of, 414–15
death of, 419
George and, 413–19
Hoover and, 313–14
indictment and imprisonment of, 418 , 419
Lamont and, 314–19
New York Stock Exchange and, 413 , 414 , 417–18
theft by, 414–19
U.S. Steel bid of, 206 , 213 , 413–14
Wiggin, Albert H., 35 , 156–57 , 207–8 , 226 , 294 , 360 , 436 , 441
Bank of United States and, 291
Willebrandt, Mabel Walker, 110–11
Williams, L. M., 112
Wilson, Woodrow, 29 , 137 , 329 , 361
Baruch and, 84 , 182
Glass and, 108 , 109
Lamont and, 107
Wiregrass Farmer , 388
Woodin, William, 34–35 , 332–33 , 354 , 357 , 369
Woolworth Building, 179
work
five-day workweek, 261 , 280
unemployment, 40 , 262 , 268 , 275 , 284 , 286 , 299 , 309
wages, 286
World’s Work , 118
World War I, 19–20 , 32 , 40 , 72 , 84 , 188 , 301 , 321
Churchill in, 183
German debt default threat following, 300–302
German reparations negotiations following, 19–20 , 24 , 32 , 37 , 97 , 102 , 107 , 138–46 , 182 , 230 , 300 , 401
Hoover’s relief efforts in, 188 , 420 , 441
veterans of, 406
World War II, 420
Young, Owen D., 36 , 40 , 69 , 94 , 97 , 98 , 101 , 102 , 127 , 189 , 223–24 , 274 , 317
Bank of United States and, 291
in German reparations negotiations, 37 , 138–39 , 141–42 , 146
Harrison and, 46
radio and, 96–97
Sarnoff and, 141
Young, Roy A., 247
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