WASHBURN (Watson). &
DE LONG (Edmund S.)
High and Low Financiers. Some Notorious Swindlers and Their Abuses of Our Modern Stock Selling System.
‘A searing exposé of rackets in stock promotion. The authors paint a gaudy and sometimes amusing picture of the lives and hustles of various dynamiters, boiler room artists, and “customers’ men” (stockbrokers) who plagued the impoverished investor in the Twenties and Thirties. There were spurious reverends, doctors, and psychologists, each with a new version of an old-fashioned swindle. This book details them all, and in the wrong hands might prove an invaluable tutor!’ (Dennistoun).
Dennistoun, Bubbles, Booms and Busts, 723.
