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...York Attorney; Minister to Holland, William Gorham Rice, New York State Civil Service Commissioner and onetime private secretary to Grover Cleveland; Minister to Canada, Warren Delano Robbins, the President's first cousin and the Department of State's Chief of Protocol. Still being kept wide open to await developments was the Ambassadorship to Germany...
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Await admitted that his office had known about Harriman irregularities as long ago as July 23 but that prosecutions were delayed in the hope of salvaging deposits. The Treasury hesitated ("in the public interest") to act lest it disturb the already critical banking situation...
Another important assistant was Francis Globy Await, acting Comptroller of the Currency, also a Republican holdover, who looks a little like Ogden Livingston Mills and smokes a 6-in. cigar at about the same angle. Mr. Await, so rushed that his uncut black hair hung over the tops of his ears, kept saying: "We're snowed under, we're snowed under." On him since last September has fallen the brunt of liquidating more than 1,000 closed national banks...
...only a solution for their own troubles but also a modus vivendi for closed banks in other states. Deposits would be divided in approximately the same proportions as assets. The liquid branch would be operated normally, subject to certain restrictions at the start; the frozen branch would await a thaw. With both State and Federal legislation required it seemed certain that the holiday would be extended...
...introduced to Detective Sergeant Ewing, shook hands heartily. The State of Illinois had added to the charges of larceny and embezzlement for which he was arrested last October, the new charge of "theft by bailee." Released on $5,000 bail he returned to his boarding house in Orillia to await a formal extradition hearing...