Word: misconduct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flock of unfledged ideas. First is to hop a rubberneck bus, inspect Daniel Chester French's noble statue of Lincoln. But when his hardboiled Secretary Saunders (Jean Arthur) tells him why the gang sent him to Washington, dumbellicose Jeff really goes to town on Boss Taylor. Framed on misconduct charges, Jeff filibusters all night by reading to bored, sleepy Senators from the Declaration of Independence, .the U. S. Constitution, the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. At dawn he wins...
...sink? Oliver Naquin as well as the board tried to get at the answer as fast and finally as possible. By Navy practice, he was recorded as the defendant. This technical procedure was very real to him, for any evidence or finding that misconduct or negligence had sunk the Squalus would sink...
...Grounds: misconduct...
...inescapably outstanding fact revealed in this report is the dangerous outmoded philosophy which, until the recent advent of a new management, dominated the affairs of the Exchange. This philosophy was characterized by the unwritten code of silence respecting misdeeds or misconduct of a member such as Richard Whitney...
...Morgan partners, Thomas W. Lamont and George Whitney, although they knew, in November 1937, of Richard Whitney's misconduct,* never called that fact to the attention of the Exchange authorities. Had it not been for their silence and inaction, he could not have continued in business, as he did, for months thereafter. George Whitney was Richard Whitney's brother...