Word: couzenses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into a protracted Senate haggle over Louisiana's petty politics, Senator James Couzens of Michigan one day last week cut with a staccato demand: "Mr. President, I desire unanimous consent to take up, out of order, Senate Joint Resolution 256. It is of considerable importance." The Senate gave its...
Their remarks were not addressed to Utah's grim, bespectacled Reed Smoot who as the committee's Republican chairman sat nodding at the head of the long green-baize table. He is a lame duck, soon to fall from his roost. Nor did the witnesses talk to impress...
It was true that Henry Ford's $7,500,000 deposit was the largest. In addition Mr. Ford had loaned Union Guardian (of which Edsel Ford and his brother-in-law Ernest C. Kanzler are directors) another $11,000,000 in an earlier attempt to buttress the crumbling institution...
Inquisitor Pecora read into the record a Halsey, Stuart letter to one Evelyn McNeil recommending that she sell her government bonds in order to buy debentures in an Insull holding company, then a letter to Halsey, Stuart asking: "For God's sake, is there any issue that Halsey, Stuart...
¶ This week the Senators began investigating Manhattan banks, turning first to big National City, with special interest in its investment affiliate. National City Co. Charles Edwin Mitchell, board chairman of both, testified that 20 billions in securities had been floated in ten years, of which something under one billion...