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...even a businessman. He was a Wall Street financier and a skillful practitioner of much that the New Deal deplored. During the 1920's he had been in the thick of cinematic mergers, deals and syndicates. Only a few months before his appointment, his fellow Commissioner. Ferdinand Pecora. had spread his name upon the record of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee as a member of a big and profitable pool that operated in alcohol stocks in the booming summer of 1933. But the President knew his man better than did anyone else in Washington...
Died. Leopold Woelfling, 66, onetime Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Colonel of the Imperial & Royal Army of Austria-Hungary; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Archduke Leopold caused a sensation in 1903 by giving up titles, power and wealth to marry an actress (Vilma Adamovic), divorced her four years later when she became a nudist and vegetarian, married a servant girl (Marie Rirter), became by turns a cabaret entertainer, bartender, railway clerk, subscription canvasser, insurance agent, actor, doorman, domestic servant. He died in poverty...
...only book, but that his influence was still alive in France was shown last week, with the U. S. publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night) and Andre Malraux (Man's Fate), "Robert Francis" (real name: Jean Godmé) follows his romantic bypath in the footsteps of Alain Fournier, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen. Critics will note a long gap between Author Francis...
...police headquarters, laid down a brown paper parcel containing all the jewels. He had got them, he said later, from one Sam Layton in exchange for a $65,000 reward posted by the company with which Mrs. Donahue had insured her jewels. On Oct. 23 Chief Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora had Scaffa indicted for compounding a felony by allowing "Sam Layton" to escape. The first trial resulted in a hung jury, the second in a directed verdict of acquittal...
...York's clubby Mayor LaGuardia appeared next with Alfred Emanuel Smith in a minstrel show of the New York lodge of Elks. Drawing the line at lampblack and red silk pantaloons, Messrs. Smith & LaGuardia wore tails, acted as interlocutors for 100 blackface minstrels including Justice Ferdinand Pecora of the New York Supreme Court...