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Only two short years had passed since Charles Edwin Mitchell had been driven from his tall temple by Ferdinand Pecora, whose persistent questioning before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee had forced from the banker's own lips the admissions that had damned him. Promptly indicted for Federal income tax fraud, Mr. Mitchell had fought through a harrowing six-week trial which lost him 24 Ib. in weight but won him an acquittal (TIME, July 3, 1933). In a later income tax action his counsel had declared that his client was "millions...
Died. Grand Duchess Alice of Tuscany, 85, widow of Grand Duke Ferdinand IV who lost his throne in 1860, mother of Archduke Leopold Ferdinand who went into trade, became famed as "Leopold the Greengrocer"; in Salzburg, Austria. In reduced circumstances, she had lately turned one of her villas into a rooming house...
...Ferdinand Pecora made many a millionaire sweat and squirm as he ferreted out Wall Street's secrets for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933 et seq.). For his services the swart, Sicilian-born inquisitor received $300 per month and the thanks of his President in the form of a one-year appointment to the Securities & Exchange Commission (TIME, July 9). Last week Lawyer Pecora received from New York's Governor Lehman the reward which he really wanted. To serve the unexpired eight years of a resigned justice's term. Governor Lehman appointed Mr. Pecora...
...lost its frontier to be excited and stimulated by tales of danger and thrilling adventure. But it is certainly all wrong for such a spirit to be fanned up artificially by the engines of a sensational Press, by the enterprising photographers who record all the horrid details of crime. . . ." Ferdinand Pecora, like most militant prosecutors, wanted to cut constitutional corners, put crooks expeditiously in jail by denying them immunity from selfincrimination, by convicting them on majority jury verdicts...
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT? Louis-Ferdinand Céline ? Little, Brown...