CONTENTS

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Foreword[vii]
PART I
CHAPTER
I.The Tortuous Course of Amalgamated[1]
II.The "System's" Method of Finance and Management[5]
III.The Men in Power Behind the "System"[13]
IV.My Own Responsibility[23]
V.The Power of Dollars[33]
VI.Construction of "Standard Oil's" "Dollar-Making" Mill[41]
VII.Juggling with Millions of the People's Money[52]
VIII."Standard Oil" Invests "Made Dollars" in Gas[56]
IX.A Votary of the "System"[60]
X.Addicks Comes to Boston[67]
XI.How Addicks Captured Boston Gas[71]
XII.Stock-Brokers not all Bad[79]
XIII.The "System" versus Westinghouse[88]
XIV.The Alliance with Addicks[93]
XV.The Great Bay State Gas Fight[103]
XVI.Peace Negotiations with Rogers[110]
XVII.A Memorable Conference[113]
XVIII.The Duplicity of Addicks[125]
XIX.Enter H. M. Whitney[133]
XX.An Awkward Attack of Appendicitis[142]
XXI.Bribing a Legislature[149]
XXII.Plundered of the Plunder[162]
XXIII.Two Gentlemen of Frenzied Finance[170]
XXIV.Buying a Bunch of States[176]
XXV.Athletics of Finance[182]
XXVI.The Circling of the Vultures[187]
XXVII.Court Corruption and Coin[191]
XXVIII.Peace at Last[195]
PART II
I.The Magic World of Finance[197]
II.The "System" and the Louisiana Lottery Compared[202]
III.The Fundamentals of Finance[208]
IV.The Magic "Jimmy"[213]
V.How the "System" does Business[217]
VI.How Wall Street's Manipulations Affect the Country[223]
VII.Economics of Copper[226]
VIII.My plan for "Coppers"[233]
IX.Birth of "Coppers"[237]
X.Rogers Grasps "Coppers"[245]
XI.The Copper Campaign Opens[253]
XII.The Buncoing of the Stockholders of Utah[261]
XIII.The Trap in Finance[266]
XIV.Lawyer Untermyer Discovers the "Nigger"[274]
XV.Degrees in Crime[281]
XVI.Mr. Rogers Unmasks[283]
XVII."Extract Every Dollar"[289]
XVIII.The Biters Bit[301]
XIX.The Despoiling of Leonard Lewisohn[307]
XX.The Christening of Amalgamated[311]
XXI.Fixing the Responsibility[320]
XXII.The Responsibility Fastened[332]
XXIII.The First Crime of Amalgamated[340]
XXIV.The Subscription Opens[346]
XXV.Dollar Hydrophobia[351]
XXVI.Deviltry Afoot[359]
XXVII.The Black Flag Hoisted[364]
XXVIII.The Bogus Subscription[370]
XXIX.The Aftermath[376]
XXX.The Morning After[385]
XXXI.I Walk the Plank[389]
XXXII.Perfecting the Double Cross[397]
XXXIII.A Retrospect and a Moral[405]
LAWSON AND HIS CRITICS
I.The Insurance Controversy[413]
II.The Enemies I Have Made[487]
III.Explanations[539]

FRENZIED FINANCE

THE STORY OF AMALGAMATED

PART I