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...five (recently increased to six) representatives each of Labor and Industry, including such potent figures as Gerard Swope, William Green, Pierre S. du Pont, John L. Lewis. And, biggest difference of all. it was captained by a stocky, barrel-chested, German-born, Tammany-raised Senator from New York, Robert Ferdinand Wagner. Last week Senator Wagner knew full well what he was facing. In the first six months of his Board's existence it had run into I.SIS labor disputes, an average of 300 a month. In the seventh month, just finished, it had run into 430 cases, a sure...
...them they represent the glories and the comforts of a vanished era. Sad old Franz Josef I died in 1916 without male issue after his only son Rudolf had been mysteriously killed at Meyerling in 1889. The throne would then have passed to the Emperor's nephew. Franz Ferdinand, had not that Archduke been assassinated with his morganatic wile at Sarajevo in 1914. Although Franz Ferdinand had three children, Sophie, Maximilian, and Ernst, the crown went to Franz Ferdinand's nephew, Karl, husband of sober Zita de Bourbon, who was one of the 18 children of Robert Duke...
...period under investigation. Nevertheless, the name of Morgan was enough to cloud the more significant revelation that during January the short position in seven leading air stocks increased from 4,000 to 44.000 shares. With that suspicious fact in view, Republican members of the Senate committee insisted that Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora begin an independent investigation to learn through what, if any, member of the Democratic Administration a leak might have sprung...
...course of his investigations of U. S. security markets, Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, last week found one for which he could say a good word. It was the San Francisco Mining Exchange, second only to the New York Stock Exchange in age. On the strength of a statement from its president, Charles E. Hudson, Inquisitor Pecora publicly acclaimed it "a very frank stock exchange." Excerpts from the Hudson statement read to the committee...
Newspaper headlines like that crackled throughout the land last week as the Senate Banking & Currency Committee let fly a final broadside before starting hearings this week on the securities control bill, Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, was quite aware that such a revelation would leave John Citizen convinced that Big Business had outdone itself in helping to blow up the speculative bubble of 1929. ''If the complete story were available, the amount would have been many times 20 billions of dollars," Inquisitor Pecora added. It would, according to Inquisitor Pecora's method of ciphering. "Other...