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...Jury. The three grocers, steamfitter, repair man, auto salesman, two clerks, merchant, expressman, broker and railroad agent who sat in judgment on Oilman Sinclair stayed out of the courtroom less than two hours. After they had said "not guilty" and been dismissed they told incredulous newsgatherers...
...knowledge of the Oil Scandals. He excused only those talesmen who said they had formed a firm opinion as to Sinclair's guilt or innocence. The twelve that were sworn were three grocers, a steamfitter, a repair man, an auto salesman, two clerks, a merchant, an expressman, a broker, a railroad agent-all men. Though few of them knew it, all these men had been investigated and watched by Sinclair detectives before being sworn as his jury. While they were being picked, Sinclair, surrounded by his lawyers, ticked off their names on the sleuths' report and scrutinized their...
...because 7,000 tickers are now hypnotizing greedy eyes in 40 states, leaving scarcely a middle-sized town from Maine to California where citizens may not actually see their savings bank withdrawals dance past their giddy eyes in strange, cryptic abbreviations three minutes after passing their checks to the broker...
...gambling on the probabilities that prices would fall. Of this, shrewd men laden with money were fully aware. They bought stocks and in such quantities that the bears could not supply. Shares of the Radio Corporation of America were particularly and peculiarly in demand. One Michael J. Meehan, Manhattan broker, bought and sold them for Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago and the Fisher brothers of Detroit, who managed a sort of corner in R.C.A. stock. Its price, consequently, rose $30 in the week. Prices of other stocks rose correspondingly. When the week ended, members of the New York Stock Exchange...
...Lawrence is bishop of Massachusetts and an ecclesiastical writer of national importance. He is chairman of the trustees of St. Mark's and Groton schools, and has been a Fellow of Harvard since 1913. Mr. Moors is the senior member of the broker firm of Moors and Cabot and president of the Public School Association. Mr. Perkins has practiced law in Boston since 1894 and is vice-president of the firm of Ropes., Gray, Boyden, and Perkins. Mr. Curtis is also a Boston lawyer. Mr. Smith was with the American Mission to negotiate peace as counsel to the Treasury Department...