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...black cloak wrapped around his neck and an expression of monarchical preoccupation. Socialites? who compose the majority of Painter de Laszlo's subjects?included Mrs. David Bruce, Mrs. James B. Duke, Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Miss Hope Iselin, Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, Anne Morgan, and Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus...
...Steuer's opponent in court, retained by the Erlanger heirs named in the will, was able little Isidor Kresel. In 1915 Mr. Erlanger had accused Mr. Steuer of blackmailing him in a suit for breach of contract brought by an actress. Mr. Kresel had subsequently tried to have Mr. Steuer disbarred. Bitter forensic rivals ever since, Mr. Kresel and Mr. Steuer met again last spring in the inquiry into the management of the Bank of United States. Mr. Steuer succeeded in indicting Mr. Kresel for perjury. Partly because Mr. Kresel and Mr. Steuer were busy with Bank of United...
George F. Baker and William Ziegler Jr., are Founder Members. Associates include such men as J. Pierpont Morgan '89, Vincent Astor, Cornelius N. Bliss '97, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, George Eastman, Francis Lee Higginson '00, Otto H. Kahn, Andrew W. Mellon Hon. '26, John J. Raskob, Jesse Isidor Straus '93, and Owen D. Young Hon. '24. The entire membership now number about 200; the remaining 50 of the complete enrolment will be filled from time to time in the future
...State was by no means done with the Bank of U. S. failure. Next day diminutive Isidor Jacob Kresel, the bank's counsel, pleaded not guilty to six indictments charging him with the same set of crimes which resulted in the Marcus-Singer conviction. Lawyer Kresel, under Referee Samuel Seabury, had been actively prosecuting the investigation of the Magistrates' Courts in Manhattan (see p. 12) when the Bank of U. S. failed, causing his retirement from public service. From a sick bed, with a fever of 104°, he appeared last winter before the Grand Jury, swore that...
...State revealed a vast tangle of suspicious irregularities. After two months eight officers of the bank were indicted for willful misappropriation of funds. Five were ordered to trial: President Bernard K. Marcus, son of the institution's founder; Russian-born Chairman of the Executive Committee Saul Singer; Counsel Isidor Jacob Kresel, one-time prosecutor of the city's police and judiciary investigation; Herbert Singer, 24-year-old son of Saul, law clerk in Counsel Kresel's office; Henry W. Pollock, executive vice president in charge of the bank's law department...