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In Manhattan, last week, a long-simmering Bankruptcy Scandal boiled over. Charges of nepotism, favoritism in awarding receiverships, intimidation of witnesses, were made in Congress against U.S. District Judge Francis Asbury Winslow. Congressman La Guardia of New York called for the kind of investigation, by the House Judiciary Committee, that...
No Prohibition legislation can be or ever has been enacted without advice and consent (and usually whipping) from this office. There ruled the late great Wayne B. Wheeler (heavy-lensed glasses and crooked mouth). There reigns now his successor F. Scott McBride, General Superintendent and Legislative Representative of the League...
The above cut is taken from one of a group of early American year books which have lately come into the possession of the Baker Library. It is illustrative of the custom, which is still with us, of moving on the first day of May which had become a great...
The late Henry Pomeroy Davison initiated the renaissance of the Guaranty Trust Co.* The bank had been founded (1864) during the crooked financial period of the Civil War. It was then called the New York Guarantee & Indemnity Co. The late Samuel D. Babcock kept its financing reputable through the dishonest...
Robert Cecil. ". . . his presence was sweet and grave. . . . He was all mild reasonableness-or so it appeared, until he left his chair, stood up, and unexpectedly revealed the stunted discomfort of deformity. Then another impression came upon one-the uneasiness produced by an enigma: what could the combination of that...