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...failed to appear, he would have been clapped promptly into jail ("contempt of the Senate"). There was no attorney for the defense. There was, however, a prosecution. It consisted of 1) six to a dozen Senators and 2) a man quite as remarkable as any of the Senators, Ferdinand Pecora...
...Senate, through a subcommittee of its Banking & Currency Committee, last week got around to investigating the Insull crash, as part of a general inquiry into the stockmarket aspect of the Depression. So slow had the Senators been that the Press had jibed about investigating the investigators. Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora, longtime assistant New York District Attorney, was the Senators' counsel. Prize exhibit of the week's hearings was Samuel Insull Jr., whose father and uncle fled the country when their towers toppled. Short, spectacled, with a smile and spirit markedly like his cockney-born father's, Insull...
...Painting," by C. R. Post '04, professor of Greek and Fine Arts, deals with the influence of the Flemish upon the Spanish painters in the latter part of the fifteenth century. Explaining the solidifying effect of the uniting of the kingdoms of Castile and Leon by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, Post shows how the arts were able to flourish under these two great patrons. This is the fourth of a series of ten or fifteen volumes which will cover the entire history of Spanish painting...
Therese Neumann was born in 1898. eldest of the ten children of Ferdinand Neumann, a poor peddler and tailor of Konnersreuth in northern Bavaria. Never over-zealous in the practice of her faith, she was blinded and paralyzed in 1918. after helping extinguish a fire in the house where she was employed. On May 17. 1925, the canonization day of St. Therese of Lisieux (''Little Flower"), Fraulein Neumann regained her sight. Eight days later she called for the priest of Konnersreuth. When he arrived she arose and walked. Later in the year she was taken ill with what...
...William Ferdinand Petersen, University of Illinois; Victor Caryl Myers, Western Reserve University; Andrew Conway Ivy, Northwestern University; George Draper, Columbia; Foster Kennedy, Cornell University Medical College; Stanley Cobb, Harvard...