Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final collapse had washed most of them away. The Senators were curious about Halsey. Stuart's former radio program, "The Old Counselor." Inaugurated with an address by Pennsylvania's obstreperous Congressman McFadden, it was a weekly investment talk prepared by Halsey, Stuart and read by Professor Bertram Griffith Nelson of the University of Chicago because he had a "mellow voice." Banker Stuart protested that the "Old Counselor" had never recommended specific securities, had several times warned against inflated stock prices...
Quick to cry out against "the interests," the Hearstpapers filled whole pages with layouts attacking Bonner & Griffith and the Power Commission. Sample headlines: "Angry Woman Throws Eggs and Hits Power Trust"; "Power Trust Keeps Government Employes Good Boys by Prospect of Promoting the Faithful to Good Jobs...
...Bonner & Griffith lost their jobs when the Power Commission was reorganized in 1930. They engaged the Washington law firm headed by Frank J. Hogan. high-priced defenders of Bribee Albert B. Fall and Oilman Edward L. Doheny. They sued 14 Hearstpapers for sums ranging for each plaintiff from $100,000 to more than $1,000,000 in Washington. By agreement the Boston American case was tried first, in U. S. District Court. Hearst's general counsel, white-crowned James A. Reed, onetime Senator from Missouri, attended the trial for a few days, was called home by the death...
Brightest bit of testimony came from Hearst's star witness, the egg-throwing Mrs. Ward. Under cross-examination by Lawyer John William Guider she admitted referring to Griffith as "lacto bacillus acidopholus-because he would sour the milk of human kindness"; and as a "dirty rotten turtle egg" because someone had told her that was the Chinese expression of supreme contempt...
...jury awarded Bonner $50,000 (half of what he asked); Griffith, $4,200. Next on the list is the Bonner-Griffith case against Hearst's Washington Times...