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...Weygand?" Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles and call out as he sat down to work, "Et Maintenant, Où est mon Weygand...
Brokers. Besides its investigation of Manhattan's Chase National Bank and its investigation of Associated Gas & Electric Co. already afoot, the Senate Committee opened still another investigation. Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora sent the New York Stock Exchange a questionnaire so exhaustive that it would have required practically a complete audit of the books of all the Exchange's members, a study of some 10,000,000 accounts of customers with brokers. The Exchange refused to answer, saying it had no authority to gather such information. Promptly a dozen prominent brokers were summoned to Washington for questioning and Inquisitor Pecora...
...grim, black-pompadored woman was dressed in black. Over her head was a borrowed crown that Napoleon I had used when in Rome. First to genuflect came Duke Maximilian of Hohenberg, the assassination of whose father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, set off a war in July 1914. The chances that they were paying homage to a future Dowager Empress were better last week than they had been in a long time...
...Ferdinand. Pecora-running for office as District Attorney of New York County on the slate of Joseph V. McKee-last week finished off the Dillon, Read chapter of the U. S. Senate's investigation of bankers. From the investigation of Dillon. Read's investment trusts (TIME, Oct. 16) he went on to two other topics that have become part of the standard program in investigating banking houses: Tax Evasion, James V. Forrestal. Dillon, Read & Co.'s vice president and a financial comet of the 1920's, admitted that in selling for $892,936 stock which...
Sydney T. Dawson, Jr. '36 was sent in at right outside yesterday, only to be replaced by Philo F. Willetts '36. The competent Edward Motley, Jr. '36 played in place of Manheimer, while Gordon C. Streeter '34 substituted at right half. Frank H. Kingsley, Jr. '35 and Ferdinand R. Stent '36 were used as fullbacks, substituting for Captain William Wemple '34, who was on the sidelines through the entire practice today because of a broken blood vessel...