Word: hopson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the biggest batch of income tax liens ever filed in Manhattan-a total of more than $53,000,000. Filed in Newark were other liens against Associated companies in New Jersey for $5,400,000. A personal action for $1,500,000 was started against Howard ("Scarlet Pimpernel") Hopson, Associ-ated's slick, roly-poly boss...
...Presidency in Chicago in 1932. For more than a year Judge Mack has been counsel to a joint legislative committee investigating New York State public utility holding companies. He it was who, after trying in vain for six months to locate Associated Gas & Electric's Howard Colwell Hopson, aptly quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel last summer...
...Scarlet Pimpernel hasn't a damned thing on Hopson," cried jolly Judge Mack...
...visitors from other Houses. Harold E. Jahn '36, Chairman of the Dance Committee, announced that the patronesses will include Mrs. Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Mrs. Theodore Morison, and Mrs. Merle Fainsod. The ushers are: Harold E. Jahn '36, Albert Harkness, Jr. '38, Rutger B. Miller '36, Albert W. Hopson '37, John B. Barney '37, Edward L. Barnes '38, Lawrence N. Stevens '36, William Lawrence '37, Arthur W. Nelson '38, and Charles E. Tuttle '37. Prices will be $2.00 per couple and $1.25 for stags...
Ostensible reason for Mr. Hopson's retirement was poor health. Testifying in Washington, an Associated lobbyist once declared: "I've been told by physicians that if he ever developed a sore throat he would choke to death." However, the fact that this year Mr. Hopson has spent only a month in his Manhattan office is probably traceable to a devout desire to dodge process servers. Among Associated suits now pending are a mail-fraud case and a stockholders' action to recover some $1,000,000 allegedly milked from the system by a Hopson personal holding company...