by Ron Chernow
foreign governments and, 102–103
money, 131–37, 149–56
panic of 1907 and, 121–29
Pujo Committee and, 149–56
railroad, 57–58, 67–69, 94
Roosevelt and, 105
shipping, 100–103, 145–47
steel, 81–86, 99–100
voting trust, 38, 68–69, 152–53, 189
Wall Street and, 68–69, 81–86, 105, 109
Tube Investments, 523, 524, 525
Tugwell, Rexford G., 358, 418, 420
Tuteleers, Louis, 452, 453
Twentieth Century Fox, 633, 634
U
Union Bank of Switzerland, 286, 547
Union Carbide, 600
Union Club, 47, 107, 171, 516
Union League Club, 48, 87, 171, 346, 423
Union Pacific Railroad, 134
United Aircraft, 601
United Air Lines, 561
United Auto Workers, 418, 498
United Biscuit, 682
United China Relief, 466
United Copper, 123
United Corporation, 308–309, 314, 369, 707
United Lutheran Church, 475
U.S. Steel, 70, 106, 149, 180, 190, 210, 258, 266, 467, 497, 500, 514, 517, 534, 536–37, 549, 661
crash of 1929 and, 316–17, 318, 422
trust, 81–86, 91, 96, 110, 130
Tennessee Coal and Iron and, 127–28, 148
U.S. Treasury, 547, 605, 646
U.S. v. Henry S. Morgan et al, 502–506, 517
United Technologies, 601
University Club, 83, 283, 378, 508
University of Chicago, 538–39, 691
Untermyer, Samuel, 158, 200, 378
Pujo Committee and, 150, 154–55, 156, 215, 216, 364, 368
U-2 spy plane, 542
V
Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, 7, 42, 508, 510
Vanderbilt, Cornelius II, 47
Vanderbilt, Mrs. Cornelius, 440
Vanderbilt, Harold, 508
Vanderbilt, William, 508
Vanderbilt, William Henry, 42–44, 47
Van Sweringen, Oris P. and Mantis J., 309–10, 324–25, 348, 369
Wheeler hearings and, 413–14
Vatican, the, 285–86, 296, 407, 521, 546–47
World War II and, 451, 455–59
Verbeck, Guido, 532
Vermilye, Peter, 561, 564, 565
Victoria, Queen, 12, 25, 98, 100
Peabody and, 7, 14, 15
Villa, Pancho, 239
Volcker, Paul, 545, 644, 660, 690
Preston and, 643, 645, 658, 659, 716, 717
Volpi, Count Guiseppe, 281, 479
Voting trust, 38, 68–69, 152–53, 189
W
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz, 600
Wadsworth Atheneum, 59–60, 119, 174
Wagg, Helbert, 524
Walker, Barney, 570–71
Walker, Elisha, 416
Wallace, Henry, 441
Wallace, Lila Acheson, 510
Wall Hall, 97, 191, 264, 410, 430, 460, 475
Wall Street, 151
assumption of government protection, 229
conscience of, 19, 114
crashes on, see Stock market crash of 1929; Stock market crash of 1987
Depression and, 346, 376, 381–84
explosion on, 212–14
fire of 1835 on, 18
Jewish-Yankee competition on, 30, 36, 84, 88–90, 195–200, 205, 215–17, 258
Northern Pacific corner and, 88–94
panic of 1873 and, 37
panic of 1907 and, 123–28
Pecora hearing revelations and, 355–57, 362, 370–74
power of, 65, 98–99, 205–207, 225–29, 244–45, 257
Reagan years on, 690–91
rise of, 33, 36, 99
Roaring Twenties on, 255, 302–15
robber barons and, 30–32
short selling and, 351–53
speculation on, 84–86, 91–93, 122, 124, 375
triumph over the City of London, 65, 98–99, 184–85, 270–71, 518–19
trusts and, 68–69, 81–86, 105, 109; see also New York Stock Exchange
Walsh, Graham, 675, 678, 687–88, 689
Walston, Vernon, 623
Walston and Company, 623
Walter, Norma, 564, 565
Wang, Stephen Sui-Kuan, Jr., 712–13
Warburg, Paul M., 130, 182, 217, 252
Warburg, Siegmund, 522–26, 570, 573, 576, 713
Euromarkets and, 545
Warburg bank, S. G., 522–26, 545, 570, 572, 590, 615, 674, 677, 679, 689, 715
after Big Bang, 675
Ward, Thomas, 5, 6
Wardwell, Allan, 254–55
Warner-Lambert, 596
War Resources Board, 441
Washington Post, 152
Wasserstein, Bruce, 602, 632, 692, 711
Weatherstone, Dennis, 568, 656, 719
Webster, Daniel, 6, 339, 340
Webster, Edwin, 325
Weinberg, Sidney, 124, 512
Welles, Sumner, 455
Wells, H. G., 221, 261, 277
Westinghouse, 315
West Shore Railroad, 53–55, 66
Wheeler, Burton K., 356, 412–14, 463
Wheeler hearings, 412–16, 490, 506, 698
Whigham, Charles F., 189
White, Stanford, 47, 140
White, William Allen, 109–10, 175–76
World War II and, 443, 444, 446, 461
White Star line, 101, 146–47
White, Weld, 607, 713
Whitney, Dorothy, see Straight, Dorothy Whitney
Whitney, George, 167, 195, 207, 213, 224, 256–57, 282, 369, 377, 400, 460, 469, 495, 508, 509, 528, 532, 538, 560
British gold standard and, 332, 334
brother’s embezzlement and, 422–29, 491–92, 562
crash of 1929 and, 312, 318
Depression and, 325
described, 491, 492
Eisenhower and, 497–99, 528–30
merger overtures and, 496
Morgan Stanley and, 384, 385, 386, 390
preferred list of friends and, 370, 371, 372
Wheeler hearings and, 413–15, 490
Whitney, Gertrude, 492
Whitney, Jock, 423
Whitney, Martha Bacon, 422
Whitney, Richard, 357, 371, 379
crash of 1929 and, 314, 316, 318–19, 422–23
described, 421–23
embezzlement scandal of, 421–29, 491–92, 562, 635, 700
loans to, 423–27
short selling and, 351–52
Whitney, Robert, 497, 498
Whitney, William C., 134
Whittemore, Fred, 624–25, 626, 716–17
Whittington, Christopher, 612, 613
Widener, P. A. B., 103
Wiggin, Albert, 315, 356, 362, 371, 480
Wilhelm, Kaiser, 102, 400
Willer, Arthur, 200–201
Willis Faber, 715
Willkie, Wendell, 390, 447–49, 463, 467, 498
Wilson, Charles E., 497–98
Wilson, Harold, 577
Wilson, Woodrow, 128, 130, 137, 156, 180, 307, 338
postwar period and, 206–209, 230
trustbusting and, 147, 149, 177, 181, 183
World War I and, 186, 188, 197–98, 202–203, 441, 442
Wilson Sporting Goods, 543
Winchell, Walter, 381
Winchester Repeating Arms, 189
Winsor, Robert, 305
Wiseman, Sir William, 196
Witte, Count, 87
Wood, Kingsley, 452, 460
Woodin, William H., 371, 372, 373
Wood Mackenzie, 675
Woodside Petroleum, 673
Woolf, Virginia, 271
World Bank, 452, 489, 517–18, 519, 557, 570, 585, 587, 644, 646
creation of, 485
Japan and, 552–53
loan policy of, 486
–87, 638
World War I, 80, 183–204
aftermath of, 205–10
attempt to forestall, 183
credits to Allies, 186
debts resulting from, 226–29, 282, 310–12, 327–29, 349–50, 392–99
Export Department and, 187–92, 197, 202, 203
$500-million Anglo-French loan, 197–201
Jewish bankers and, 195–200
Liberty Loans and, 201–203
opposition to involvement in, 185–86, 192, 202
panic of 1914 and, 183–84
profiteering from, 186–87, 188, 191–92, 399–401
U.S. entry into, 201–204, 399–401
World War II, 440–68, 470, 475
Battle of Britain, 459–61
cash and carry exports and, 442
events leading to, 437–40
government resources and, 442
Lend-Lease and, 461–64
Lindbergh and, 444–47
Morgan et Compagnie and, 450–54
Wright, J. Hood, 70, 87
Wriston, Walter, 538, 619, 620–21, 638, 646, 655, 660
Wynn, Bob, 552, 557–58
X
Xerox, 561, 617
Y
Yale University, 290, 319, 580, 597, 607, 690
Yellow Cab Company, 307
Yerkes, Charles Tyson, 100
Yokohama Specie Bank, 233, 234, 342, 466
Yom Kippur War, 613, 614
York, Edward H., 387
Young, John, 554, 557
Young, Owen, 249, 251, 310–12, 371, 420
Jack and, 411–12
Young, Robert, 415–17, 502, 506–11, 625
Alleghany rehabilitation and, 415–16
revolt against Morgan hegemony, 416–17, 428
Young, Roy A., 319
Young Plan, 311–12, 392–99, 478
Yugoslavia, 490
Yule and Company, Andrew, 461
Y
Zeckendorf, William, 531, 532, 534
Zodiac Club, 254