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...Communist Gubernatorial Candidate Samuel T. Hammersmark. Also present were some 500 Oak Park matrons & men who hissed, booed, yowled, screamed "Liar!" and "Murderer" so lustily that the Legionaries were forced to reverse their role, protect the speaker from his audience. Up stood the church's Pastor Albert Buckner Coe at meeting's end, said to Red Hammersmark: "You are to be complimented for being more of a gentleman than most of our guests." Next morning Pastor Coe found his church sign smeared with red paint...
However, when Mr. Cooper went around to the Clearing House Association the following March to ask for $200,000 to enable the sapped Harriman bank to reopen after the 1933 bank holiday, he found the atmosphere distinctly chilly. Mortimer Norton Buckner, then president of the Clearing House Association and chairman of New York Trust, one of the eleven banks to settle, testified last week that most of the members were willing to contribute their share of the $6,300,000 actually needed to make up the Harriman losses, but that two banks, Guaranty Trust and Bankers' Trust, broke...
...Buckner arose," Banker Cooper testified last week, "and told me the Clearing House committee was not prepared to go through with it. I said: 'You mean this loan?' He said: 'No, this whole arrangement.' I said: 'You don't mean your pledges to stand behind the bank?' and he said: 'I'm afraid so.' I told him that they had given undeniable pledges and that I would not stand...
...York Trust's Chairman Mortimer N. Buckner reported profits of $4,060,000 available for dividends, reserves and surplus, compared with $5,146,000 in 1934. President S. (for Samuel) Sloan Colt of Bankers Trust announced operating earnings of $8,136,000, down from $11,452,000 the year before. Central Hanover Bank & Trust's Chairman George W. Davison briefly announced that profits (exclusive of "substantial" recoveries) amounted to $6.03 on each of its 1,050,000 shares, as against $10.68 per share in 1934. Corn Exchange showed net operating income of $2,666,000 in addition...
...were worth. Thus it was admitted that Cook, Nathan & Lehman, attorneys for the stockholders' committee, were "responsible in large measure for the fact that the stockholders' rights have been preserved." But where Cook, Nathan & Lehman claimed $250,000, Judge Coxe allowed them $115,000. Similarly Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, attorneys for the receivers and trustees, specified that partners of the firm had put in 9,545 hours on the Paramount case and that their associates had put in 62,568 hours. But of a claim for $700,000, Judge Coxe allowed only $200,000, partly because...