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When Senator Couzens first introduced this resolution, his own State of Michigan was the biggest, blackest blotch on the banking map of the U. S. When S. J. R. 256 reached President Hoover's desk a week later, the banking map was badly pockmarked with many another big black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKS: Close to Bottom | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKS: Close to Bottom | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Happiest to attend was rich-radical James Couzens. Like his old partner, Henry Ford, he has no use for banks & bankers or much of anything else in the present social system. Famed for his ability to step on every protruding toe, he got into politics as a rambunctious Mayor of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Damnation of Mitchell | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Senator Couzens, serving one day as temporary chairman, made Mr. Mitchell squirm when he asked him whether he considered himself a better salesman than a financier. "I understand you have quite a reputation as a salesman and a financier both." Mr. Mitchell did not think the question fair, but replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Damnation of Mitchell | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Senator Couzens: Doesn't it [the bonus system] inspire a lack of care in the sale of securities to the public?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Damnation of Mitchell | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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