Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the President's own handwriting that tribute was engraved on a silver plaque and the plaque presented last week to Walter Joseph Cummings, outgoing chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Its donors were officials of the corporation from which the RFC had plucked Mr. Cummings to represent...
Died. Pat Malloy, 49, Tulsa lawyer & oilman (Malloy & Co.); suddenly, of coronary occlusion; in an Eldorado, Ark. hotel. As county prosecutor 20 years ago he made such a brilliant closing argument in a murder case that the judge declared a mistrial. Appointed Assistant Attorney General by President Roosevelt last year...
"Rumor had it that he [Walter Joseph Cummings, onetime president of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.] and his 'personal friend,' the Comptroller of the Currency, did not get along together. Rather than have him resign, his other personal friends, William Woodin and Franklin Roosevelt, preferred to provide him...
May I say I have no warmer friend than Mr. Cummings. The statement in your issue is absolutely incorrect. Mr. Cummings and I got along together without the slightest misunderstanding in the handling of very difficult problems. In fact, I protested against his leaving the chairmanship of the Federal Deposit...
Mr. Cummings delivered a lengthy opinion, citing several decisions of the Supreme Court. His conclusion: "The monetary gold stock may be taken by the Government in the exercise of its right of eminent domain. . . . Congress may make paper money tender for the payment of all debts. . . . The Government may discharge...