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...stock interest in Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. With Mr. Cummings comfortably settled as board chairman and "chief executive" of Continental Illinois, President Roosevelt got around last week to picking his successor as FDIC's chairman. He was a Wisconsin banker named Leo Thomas Crowley and no tyro at New Dealing. Long before March 4, as chairman of Wisconsin's Banking Review Board by appointment of Governor La Follette, Mr. Crowley sponsored legislation to insure deposits of public monies and to bolster weak Wisconsin banks. Lately he has been close to Henry Morgenthau...
...whom President Roosevelt allowed to con tinue on the board are all big businessmen. West by Southwest. Wilson McCarthy is one, a smart Salt Lake City lawyer whose pony-express riding father left him a cattle fortune. Another is that husky lover of detective stories, rich Public Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch of Pine Bluff, Ark. And from the most spacious State of all is the man who dominates RFC's policies, has dominated them since the agency's re birth-Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, a Texan now become a titan. When Jesse Jones is out of Washington...
...took National Guardsmen, armed with machine guns and tear bombs, to avert a pitched battle between two factions of Baptists (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). Later two resolute evangelists each sought to become fulltime pastor of Jonesboro's Baptist Tabernacle. Last September Rev. Joe Jeffers and Rev. Dale S. Crowley were arrested for fistfighting. When Evangelist Jeffers installed a follower of his as Tabernacle janitor, Evangelist Crowley countered by obtaining a court order conceding the Tabernacle's pastorate to himself. Flourishing the order he entered the Tabernacle, told the janitor to get out. When the janitor refused, Evangelist...
...Crowley departed, returned with a gun, shot him dead. Arrested for murder, Evangelist Crowley was hustled away lest Jonesboro's excitable Baptists cause more trouble. Last week he went on trial at Piggott (pop.: 1,885) before a jury of four Methodists, two Baptists, six nonchurchgoers. Defendant Crowley, pleading self-defense, said that the janitor pointed a gun at him. "My only impulse was to save my life and there came before me in a flash-my wife and babies. I believed my gun was my only hope." The Piggott jury deliberated three minutes, acquitted Evangelist Crowley...
...Walcott '34, "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," by Charles H. Newton '36, and "Seven Nights in the Mountains," by Cyrus L. Sulzberger '34. Three poems are to be "Keep Smiling," by Charles A. Smart '26, "A Virgin," by James L. Boyle '35, and "The Seventh Seal," by Eben Crowley...