Word: couzenses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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U. S. Senator James Couzens is not a tactful man. Last week in Detroit, where he got his riches as Henry Ford's foreman-partner and his radicalism as a rambunctious police commissioner, silver-crowned Senator Couzens bluntly accused his home town bankers of pulling down their temples on...
Detroit has waited a long time to hear Michigan's Senior Senator tell his story of the banking fiasco which Judge Harry B. Keidan has been probing off & on all summer (TIME, Aug. 7). For in all the reckless charges and counter-charges that have been hurled since Detroit...
Irked by this notion of his constituents, he cabled Judge Keidan from the London Economic Conference last month that "complete testimony cannot be given without my presence." Last week he kept insisting that he knew more than he would tell, and if Detroit's bankers failed to furnish all...
Other stockholders, less well-to-do than the Couzenses, were fighting the $35,000,000 in assessments ordered by the U. S. Comptroller of the Currency, had in fact secured a temporary Federal injunction against their collection. Such legal tactics made upright Senator Couzens impatient. Declaimed...
"The provisions of the law for double assessment are plainly stated. Mrs. Couzens and I believe that the moral obligation is plain and we do not desire to avail ourselves of any technical or other reasons for not paying the assessment."