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Loudly have New York City's Fusionists boasted that their Mayoral candidate, onetime Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia, has the backing of Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, whose municipal investigations ran Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker out of the City Hall and into exile. Last week the followers of Independent Democratic Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee could match Inquisitor for Inquisitor with Fusion. On their ticket, as candidate for District Attorney, they got Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the Senate's Wall Street investigation, quizzer last spring of J. P. Morgan & Co., last week of Dillon, Read...
...York mayor whose income tax was under investigation last week by the U.S. was James John ("Jimmy") Walker, still in happy exile in Europe. Before the Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan appeared Russell T. Sherwood, Walker's financial Man Friday who fled investigation by the Legislature's inquisitor, Samuel Seabury. Sherwood balked at many a Question on the ground that the answer might tend to degrade and incriminate him, was upheld by a Federal judge...
Last week swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee wound up his efforts to pin scandal on J. P. Morgan & Co. by trying to prove that its partners had been evading income taxes (see p. 13). Not content to let the inquiry end upon this note, the House of Morgan countered by making two statements. First was a memorandum submitted by John P. Morgan answering Mr. Pccora's criticisms...
...private banking issue was less demonstrable. Insinuating though he was, Inquisitor Pecora had yet to prove that it had anything to do with the Cost of Living...