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...tendency to accomplish "reforms" by administrative fiat rather than by judicial hearings is one of the first signs of weakness. There is nothing in New York law or tradition that sanctions the practice of combining judge and jury in the single person of Mr. Moss. For someday the official inquisitor may not be so enlightened a man as Mr. Moss, and the voice of authority may ring out for the abridgement of some less undesirable pursuit than Mr. Minsky's. It would surely set a better precedent to take this matter before the properly constituted judicial body than...
...Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation of 1933-34 he easily made headlines by broaching' an argument which, if sit-down-strikes reach the proportions of a national crisis may become one of the big guns behind the drive for revising the Court. He accused investment bankers of a "sitdown" against...
...young lawyer in Manhattan 50 years ago he led the Men's Bible Class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, a job which he subsequently gave over to John D. Rockefeller Jr., but it was as a reformer that he first caught the public eye, as an inquisitor who with extraordinary ability exposed skulduggery in the gas and insurance businesses. It was in that role, sometimes referred to as "Charles the Baptist," that he ran for Governor in 1906, and beat William Randolph Hearst...
...That," snapped the inquisitor, "clearly was intended to indicate a method of evading the law, wasn't it, Mr. Pinkerton...
...been practiced in the U. S. in late years. Hand-picked for the Senate by Railroad Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman was a list of likely subjects. Much of the preliminary field work in the investigation was done by the experienced staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Named as inquisitor was Max Lowenthal, lawyer-author of The Investor Pays. Fortnight ago Senator Wheeler sat down for the first hearings in Washington to harvest his publicity...