Word: croy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made an inaccurate and erroneous statement in your issue of Dec. 27. ... You said: "That the finance companies were not entirely innocent of shenanigans appeared, however, with the revelation that they had hired a onetime newshawk named Harry G. Croy to investigate the personnel of the grand jury...
...finance companies did not hire Mr. Croy. I, as counsel for Commercial Credit Co., appeared before Judge Geiger in the proceedings to which you refer. The record of those proceedings clearly shows that Commercial Credit Co. had nothing whatever to do with the employment of Mr. Croy. Neither it nor any of its representatives knew anything about the matter. Counsel for another finance company took sole and personal responsibility for the employment of Mr. Croy, and he stated to the Court that he had not consulted with any other company when he employed Mr. Croy...
TIME, in company with newspapers reporting the trial, erred. Newshawk Croy was hired by Phillip W. Haberman, attorney for Universal Credit, who says he wanted to find out why accounts of the supposedly secret Grand Jury proceedings were getting to the press. But all the finance companies, Commercial Credit included, would have benefited if Newshawk Croy had found out anything...
That the finance companies were not entirely innocent of shenanigans appeared, however, with the revelation that they had hired a onetime newshawk named Harry G. Croy to investigate the personnel of the grand jury. Judge Geiger promptly cited him for contempt of court...
Some people, particularly your tennis reporter, might not agree that the presence of such well-known leaders in their respective professions as the late Will Rogers, Fred Stone, Homer Croy, Don Marquis, Helen Keller and Dale Carnegie, to mention a few, make our community a distinguished one, but after all, the presence of such notables in our midst secures for Forest Hills more publicity throughout the entire year, than do the tennis matches...