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...Schram protested that it would kill self-regulation of the Stock Exchange just when the Exchange had reorganized for that very purpose. SEC in turn not only dragged out Dick Whitney, but also the more recent Cuppia case. Jerome Chester Cuppia, a former partner of E. A. Pierce and ex-governor of the N.Y. Curb Exchange, exiled himself to South America in 1940 after engaging in fee-splitting and kickbacks totaling over $1,000,000 in eight years (an infraction of the Curb's constitution). Six other Curb members involved were finally expelled after SEC began its own hearings...
...Keller as his successor. He also left his pupil 52 big drawers jammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Keller spent 17 years organizing them and in 1927 produced an immense work in four volumes, Science of Society, which he credited mainly to Sumner. Once, when Connecticut's ex-Governor Wilbur L. Cross intimated at a public meeting that there was more Keller than Sumner in the book, Keller leaped to his feet to denounce the idea. But last week the William Graham Sumner Club (old Sumner and Keller pupils) decided that bluff Bert Keller's hero worship...
Nobody has ever found anything seriously wrong with Maestri's administration. Federal investigators have raked over his record without finding a trace of the graft that sent most of Huey Long's inheritors (including ex-Governor Leche) to the penitentiary. Since he took office five years ago, he has pulled New Orleans out of bankruptcy, put its finances on a cash basis, cut $20,000,000 from its debt. Like the Kingfish, Maestri is smart. His friends dabble in rackets to their hearts' content, but Maestri apparently keeps his hands clean. "Let the other guys have that...
Professor Emeritus Julian L. Coolidge, who is in charge of the course, will chair the meeting. J. M. Laughlin, Assistant Regional Director of the First Civilian Defense Region, will speak on plans for the area. Hon. L. O. Barrows, ex-Governor of Maine, and Director of the A.R.P. school run by the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, will discuss the self-sufficient A.R.P. setup designed for Harvard, which is comparable to industry setups...
Gifford Pinchot II, nephew of Pennsylvania's ex-Governor, was sued for $150,000 by a Hollywood dancer named Margo La Salle, who charged he knocked her flat at a nightclub...