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...steps. Prize of the chase was big black headlines for either Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Investigating Committee or Chairman Black of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee, depending on which one's agents first thrust a subpoena into the hands of Howard Colwell ("Scarlet Pimpernel") Hopson, missing master of Associated Gas & Electric Co. (TIME, July...
...Roly-poly Mr. Burroughs, who swore that he did not know the whereabouts of his boss, roly-poly Mr. Hopson, was equally uncertain about A. G. & E.'s corporate setup. "I can't any more tell you the corporate organization of all the companies than you can tell me the corporate set-up of the alphabetical agencies of the Government...
...Bernard B. Robinson, lobbyist of A. G. & E.. testified that he had talked with Mr. Hopson by telephone four days earlier but did not known his whereabouts. "Mr. Hopson is not a well man. I've been told by physicians that if he ever developed a sore throat he would choke to death." "If you knew where he was would you tell the committee?" "Well. I don't believe I would." "Then we will ask you. Do you know where...
...Alarmed by Mr. Hopson's illness,* Senator Black asked the Department of Justice to serve a subpoena on him in Manhattan. A deputy marshal failed to find him. Not surprised by the Senate's failure was Judge John E. Mack, conducting a utilities investigation for the New York Legislature. For six months Judge Mack has been trying, with a notable lack of success, to find Mr. Hopson. At Albany last week he quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel on Runaway Hopson: They seek him here, they seek him there...
...heaven? Is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel! Smiled Judge Mack: "The Scarlet Pimpernel hasn't a damned thing on Hopson...