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...everything all our own way. A friendly Administration in Washington. Low taxes. And a friendly public. And what did we do with our power? On the economic side we gave this country a balloon boom that had to burst. On the moral side we produced men like Insull and Hopson and Musica, who undermined confidence in business...
...Proceedings got underway with a 155 quarter final bout between Howie Hopson of Leverett and Gus Summers of Winthrop with the Bunnio pugilist taking the decision. This fight was followed by seven semi-final matches and one quarter final. Then after a brief intermission the finals were...
...closest fight of the afternoon was the 155 lb. final between Johnny Parrish, of Eliot, and Hopson in which the decision went to Parrish. Because of an injured thumb, Dudley's Brendon Reilley was unable to take part in the 175 lb. final, so Johnny Watkins, of Lowell was declared the winner by default...
...bigger ideas. In selecting the Committee's chief counsel, he rejected all political recommendations, went instead to Attorney General (now Justice) Robert H. Jackson for advice. Thus he got a top-flight investigator: rotund, brilliant, young Hugh Fulton, a Justice Department prosecutor who had sent Howard C. Hopson, head of Associated Gas & Electric Corp., to prison...
...Proposed last week was the first reorganization plan for Income Tax Evader Howard Hopson's Associated Gas utility system since it went into bankruptcy two years ago. The plan: creation of a new grandfather holding company to liquidate the present parent companies and eventually distribute the shares of the operating companies to the security holders. Its proposer: Henry A. Stix, once Hopson's corporate accounting wizard, who turned State's evidence at Hopson's trial, and so impressed prosecutor Hugh Fulton that he helped get Stix several jobs with the Government...