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...Marcus Monroe Brown's Rockefeller in Education & Religion, 1905 (charitarian); Ida Minerva Tarbell's The History of Standard Oil, 1904 (anathema...
...many an oldster could recall the lusty history of the Anaconda Standard- conceived in anger, nurtured in strife and extravagance; could recall how, as the personal organ of the late famed copper tycoon Marcus Daly, the Standard stood at the turn of the century among the best edited dailies...
...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...
...misty morning in Manhattan last week a score of criminals plodded across the Bridge of Sighs from the Tombs to the Criminal Courts Building. At the head of the procession, handcuffed to a Porto Rican burglar, marched well-groomed Bernard K. Marcus, high-headed president of the defunct Bank of United States. Behind him with head bowed came Saul Singer, chairman of the executive committee, manacled to his 24-year-old son Herbert, bewildered dummy in the bank's subsidiaries. Week before all three had been convicted of wilfully misapplying $8,000,000 of Bank of United States...
...believe it was greed on the part of Marcus and Singer that led them into their difficulties. ... I am going to sentence Marcus and Saul Singer to State's prison [Sing Sing] for from three to six years." He sentenced Son Herbert to the penitentiary, three months to three years...