Word: bankster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their pride of profession but would reduce all U. S. banking to its lowest level. They saw their deposits which they had spent a lifetime to build up and protect with their good names confiscated by the Government to pay for the mistakes and dishonesty of every smalltown bankster...
...newspapers? When he got home next morning he described the old man to his wife. She said she had seen him too the day before, and she knew who he was. She told a New York Herald Tribune reporter that it was Joseph W. Harriman, the defamed bankster whose escape the previous day from the Regent Nursing Home in Manhattan, where he was awaiting trial for falsification of bank accounts had electrified the Press. Few hours later the reporter called at the Inn, chatted with the proprietor, suggested to him that his feeble old guest was Harriman...
Speeding to the inn came Boykin Cabell Wright, Bankster Harriman's son-in-law who asked to be left alone with the old man. Since Harriman was out on bail, the police had no jurisdiction over him. They withdrew. Then Harriman asked Wright to step out too while he dressed...
Federal prosecution for income tax evasion has become a sharp Governmental weapon against irregularities of men of high and low degree. 'Legger Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone is now serving eleven years at Atlanta for tax evasion. Bankster Charles Edwin Mitchell is awaiting trial on similar charges. Last week the weapon was used against a $700-a-month marriage license clerk in Manhattan and against a potent Chicago Democrat...
While U. S. Attorney George Zerdin Medalie, a Republican who last year ran for the Senate, presented the Federal Grand Jury with evidence of Bankster Harriman's misdeeds, a depositors' committee revealed that the Treasury and Justice Departments in Washington had known of the bank's condition for months but had failed to act. Facts for prosecution were laid before Attorney Medalie Dec. 24. To clear his own skirts, he blurted...