Business: Ex-Knight

"Not since the darkest days of the depression have Wall Street and Park Avenue been so agitated as by yesterday's announcement that the New York Stock Exchange has suspended the firm of Richard Whitney & Co. By luncheon time the dismal word had penetrated even such frivolous retreats as the Colony Restaurant and '21.' For once, Mrs. Harrison Williams' clothes, Carrie Munn's crazy hats and Bob Topping's latest escapade ceased to be favorite topics of conversation. . . . Not in our time, in our fathers' time nor in our grandfathers' time has there...

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