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Authors: John Brooks

The Go-Go Years (53 page)

Northern Pacific,
64
,
116

Northwest Industries,
176–77
,
227

Norton Company,
308

Nye Committee,
214

Offshore funds,
270–74
,
348

Omega Equities,
268–70
,
280

Onassis, Aristotle,
66

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy,
61

Oppenheimer and Company,
349

Organized crime, stock theft and,
195

Over-the-counter market,
21–22

Overtrading,
220–21

Pacioli, Fra Luca,
159

Pan American Airways,
172
,
175
,
176
,
220
,
227

Pantepec Oil,
38
,
44

Paramount Pictures,
171
,
173

Parvin, Albert,
275

Parvin-Dohrmann,
24
,
275–78

Patman, Wright,
243

Patterson, Belknap and Webb,
82

Peace, Wall Street and,
10–11
,
213–17

Peck, Stephen,
319

Penn Central Railroad Company,
304
,
309

Penn-Texas,
155

Pennsylvania, University of,
121

“People's capitalism,”
12–13
,
101
,
353

Performance funds,
see
Mutual funds

Performance Systems, Inc.,
174
,
280

Pergamon Press,
258

Perot, Henry Ross,
1–2
,
14–25
,
292
,
336–47
,
352

Perry, Jay,
264
,
266

Pickard and Company,
315–16

Piggly Wiggly Stores,
64

Pittsburgh Plate Glass,
42

Plohn, Charles,
184
,
281

Plohn (Charles) and Company,
324
,
325
,
350

Polaroid,
27
,
135
,
139
,
145
,
184
,
305

Politics: I.T.T. and,
178–80;
Wall Street and,
111–12

Pool operators,
5
.
See also
Portfolio managers

Portfolio managers,
5
,
102
,
113

Pressprich (R. W.) and Company,
17
,
18
,
19
,
23

Price-to-earnings ratio,
157
,
172–73

Princeton University,
121

Privileged information,
see
Insider trading

Project Redeployment,
166

Protestants on Wall Street,
114–16

Prudential Insurance,
301

Putnam, Samuel,
128–29

Quaker Oats,
42

Randell, Cortes Wesley,
280–85

Rapid-American Corporation,
168
,
169
,
174
,
303

Rapid Electrotype,
168

Raskob, John,
141

Re, Gerard A.,
31
,
32–33
,
35–37

Re, Gerard F.,
31
,
32–33
,
35–37

Real estate investing,
272–74

Redemption: of mutual funds,
102
; of shares,
269

“Redundant capital,”
234

Regan, Donald,
297
,
301
,
302
,
303
,
332
,
339
,
356

Reilly, Joe,
34
,
35
,
41–42
,
46–50

Reinisch, Hans,
292

Reliance Insurance Company,
235–38
,
325

“Reminiscences of a Stock Market Operator” (Lefevre),
130

Renchard, William Shryock,
228–31
,
238–59

Report on Regulatory Agencies to the
President-Elect
(Landis),
84

Resorts International,
175
,
176
,
227

Responsive Environments,
279

Rhodes Enterprises,
71
,
73

Riklis, Meshulam,
168–70
,
303

RKO-Stanley Warner Theatres,
169

Roberts, A. Addison,
236–38
,
250
,
252

Robinson and Company,
324–25
,
350

Roche, James,
301

Rockefeller, David,
107
,
225

Rockefeller, John D., Sr.,
293

Rockefeller, Laurance,
255

Rockefeller, Nelson,
253
,
255

Rockefeller, Percy,
141

Rohatyn, Felix George,
319–47

Romnes, H. I.,
239
,
241
,
257
,
301

Roosa, Robert V.,
217

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
83
,
105
,
111

Roosevelt, James,
271

Ropes and Gray,
129–30

Rossant, M. J.,
71
,
76

Rubenstein, Serge,
30

Ruberoid,
72–73
,
74

Safire, William,
301

St. John, Jill,
276
,
278

Salgo, Nicolas,
153

Salinger, Pierre,
273
,
348

Salomon Brothers,
263–66

Salomon, William R.,
264
,
266
,
300
,
339

Sass, Martin,
211

Sassoon's Far Eastern Trust, Ltd.,
123

Saul, Ralph,
33
,
43
,
44
,
53
,
88
,
151
,
301

Schenley Industries,
169

Schwab, Charles M.,
141

Schwabacher and Company,
190

Scudder, Stevens and Clark,
132

Searles, Joseph Louis, III,
209

S.E.C. (Securities and Exchange Commission),
83–84
,
162
,
187–88
,
263
; actions of,
32–33
,
85–86
,
87
,
115–16
,
269
,
276–78;
brokerage firms and,
190
,
312
,
314
,
331
; Cary and,
82–98;
Nixon and,
286–90
,
292
; reports of,
53
,
88
,
90–92
,
151

Secured demand notes,
313

Securities Acts Amendments of 1964
93–94
,
98

Securities Exchange Act of 1934
85–86
,
159
,
307

Securities Investor Protection Corporation,
342
,
350

Security Equity Fund,
140
,
212

Seeburg (J. P.) Corporation,
274
,
275

Segal, Andrew,
37
,
40–54

Seidler, Lee J.,
162
,
163–64

Sexism on Wall Street,
108–10
,
207–8

Shapiro, Max,
305

Shawano Development Corporation,
51

Shearman and Sterling,
73

Shearson Hammill and Company,
208–9

Shooters,
see
New issues

Shor, Toots,
33

Short sales,
141
,
142
,
243

Shultz, George,
297

Siebert, Muriel,
208

Silver, David,
43
,
45

Simmons, Richard,
253
,
254
,
256

Sinaiko, A. Arlie,
142

Sipic,
342
,
350

Slick Corporation,
174

Smith, Barney,
283

Smith, Ben,
35

South Puerto Rican Sugar,
171

Sparkman, John,
253
,
256

Speculation, ethics of,
219–21

Sperry-Rand,
27
,
305

Spingarn, Heine,
267

Standard Oil of New Jersey,
305

Stans, Maurice,
301

Stanton, Thomas J., Jr.,
241

Stardust Hotel-Casino,
276
,
278

State Street Fund,
282

State Street Investing Company,
129

Stayman, Sam,
142

Stein, Howard,
111
,
140

Steinberg, Saul Phillip,
228
,
231–59
,
349
,
352

Stock certificates,
193–94
,
356

Stock Exchange,
see
American Stock Exchange; Curb Market; New York Stock Exchange; Toronto Stock Exchange

Stock manipulation,
5
,
141
,
243
,
262
,
276–78

Stock market: 1929 crash,
4–6
,
291–92
,
297
,
305–7
,
311–12;
1962 collapse,
55–57;
1970 crash,
4–6
,
291–310

Stock specialists,
31–32
,
38
,
93
,
96
,
263–64

Stock theft,
185
,
191
,
195

Stock transfer tax,
151

Stockholders,
12–13
,
305
,
353–55

Stott, Robert L., Jr.,
319

Streit, Clarence,
320

Stuckey and Spear,
283

Subordinated loans,
313–14

“Surplus surplus,”
234

Swan-Finch Oil Corporation,
30
,
33

Swift,
42

Swisher, Bill,
322

Swope, Herbert Bayard,
141

Syntex,
145

Take-overs,
see
Mergers

Talley, Madelon,
208

Temco Electronics and Missiles,
166

Tender offers,
160–61

Texaco, Inc.,
139
,
239

Texas Gulf Sulphur Company,
5
,
86
,
97
,
115
,
118

Textron,
152
,
153
,
155–56

Thompson, Rupert,
153

Thornton, Charles (Tex),
173

Tisch, Laurence,
136
,
349

Tobias, Andrew,
280

Toronto-Dominion Bank,
122
,
123

Toronto Stock Exchange,
118

Transitron,
27
,
261

Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.),
6–9
,
218
,
222–26

Trujillo, Rafael,
31

Truman, Harry S.,
83

Trusts,
128–29
,
131

Tsai, Gerald, Jr.,
5
,
102
,
132–40
,
145–49
,
212
,
351–52

Tsai Management and Research,
146–49

Tyson, Robert C.,
239
,
241
,
257

Understanding the Securities Act and the
S.E.C.
(McCormick),
36

Unemployment,
307–9

United Convalescent Homes,
184
,
279

United Dye and Chemical Corporation,
51

University Loudspeakers,
166

University of Chicago,
283

U.S. Steel,
56
,
145
,
239

U.S. Steel Pension Fund,
120
,
121
,
124
,
125

U.S. Trust Company of New York,
217

Utilities and Industries Corporation,
332

Vanderbilt, Cornelius,
64
,
110

Viscoloid Company,
155

Voloshen, Nathan,
277

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.),
5
,
9
,
11
,
106–8;
antiwar demonstrations on,
6–10
,
214–15
,
217
,
226
; blacks on,
110–11
,
208–10;
changes on,
355–57;
communism on,
111–12;
drugs on,
200–4
,
226
; greening of,
222–26;
over-extension of,
183–87;
political ideology of,
111–12;
social conscience of,
10–11
,
12–13;
as a social context,
104–6;
social revolution on,
206–26;
women on,
108–10
,
207–8;
youth on,
112–13
,
195–204
,
210–13

Wall Street Ministry,
218–21

“Wall Suite” (play),
225

Walston and Company,
325

War, Wall Street and,
10–11
,
213–17

Warburg, Paul M.,
117

Warner Brothers Seven Arts,
349

Warrants,
161

WASPs on Wall Street,
114–16

Weight Watchers International,
279

Weiss, Peck and Greer,
319

Welch Scientific Company,
28

Welles, Chris,
231

Westergaard, John,
232–33

White Consolidated,
175

White, Weld and Company,
166
,
169
,
250
,
251

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