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...Inquisitor Pecora read into the record a Halsey, Stuart letter to one Evelyn McNeil recommending that she sell her government bonds in order to buy debentures in an Insull holding company, then a letter to Halsey, Stuart asking: "For God's sake, is there any issue that Halsey, Stuart sold me that is not going into default?" Snapped Banker Stuart: "You are creating the impression that we sold nothing but worthless securities. We did sell some bad ones, like every other company, but the percentage was small. We are very proud of our record." Banker Stuart suggested that complete...
...Seabury Divinity School in Faribault, Minn. The student bodies will be combined in Evanston next October, the merged institutions probably named Seabury-Western. Seabury having originally been named for Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury, first U. S. Episcopal bishop, ancestor of Ward Seabury, Chicago businessman, and Samuel Seabury, New York inquisitor...
...Institute of Technology. Said he, leaving Berlin: "That insignificant, irritable visa incident will not spoil the pleasure of the voyage. . . . It's all forgotten. The trouble with hearings of that kind is that you don't realize until some time has passed just where the inquisitor is trying to get under your skin. I suggest in the future Consuls put pins in their victims' chairs so they will feel stuck from the beginning." In Washington, when hearings on the annual Postal Supply Bill were made public, it was learned that the Post Office Department had traded...
...judicial deal whereby Tammany endorsed its inquisitor. Republican State Senator Samuel Hofstadter, for the Supreme Court bench began to bear fruit for the Democrats last week. Republican State Chairman Kingsland Macy, shocked and resentful, denounced the deal as "an unspeakable idea." The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, led by George Woodward Wickersham, flayed Senator Hofstadter as "unfit to hold judicial office" and got busy trying to frame an independent ticket. One item of the deal was that city Republicans were not to fuse with independent Democrats to beat Tammany but were to nominate a flabby...
Governor Roosevelt found himself pushed into another tight place last week by the charges preferred by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury against New York's Mayor Walker (TIME, June 13). The Governor had to decide whether or not to remove the Tammany Mayor from office for malfeasance and nonfeasance. He fumed & fumed because Counsel Seabury had released his charges to the Press. He inspired, through an anonymous spokesman, insinuations against the investigator's motives which set Manhattan editors tush-tushing. Though he declared he "resented" any speculation as to the part national politics would play in his decision...