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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showman. The real showman of the Morgan investigation, however, was not a circus pressagent. nor a Senator but the kinky-haired, olive-skinned, jut-jawed lawyer from Manhattan named Ferdinand ("Pick") Pecora. Because Senator Fletcher, who at 74 looks like a wealthy Yankee visitor to his own Florida, is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wealth on Trial | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

A Roland for an Untermyer, or a Walsh or a Davis, Inquisitor Pecora did a much better job of establishing substantial information about private banking on which to base legislation. With time to search and prepare, he never dropped a question until he got his answer. Yet it was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wealth on Trial | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

4) The partnership papers of the House of Morgan, so arcane that even Lawyer Davis had never seen them, disclosed that Partner Morgan was the firm's supreme arbiter, that one partner could veto any proposal, that half of each partner's profits were plowed back into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wealth on Trial | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

The summary HARVARD D.M.C. Benson, No. 1 No. 1, Scarlett Davis, No. 2 No. 2, Pickering Nicholas, No. 3 No. 3, Young Johnson, back back, Poor

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY DEFEATS P.M.C POLOISTS AT DANVERS | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

Score--Harvard 7, D.M.C. 5. Goals Benson 3, Nicholas 3, Pickering 2, Young 3, Davis 1, Searlett 1. Time--six 7 1-2-minute chukkers. Referee--Richard Small.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY DEFEATS P.M.C POLOISTS AT DANVERS | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

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