Word: pecora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not." Everyone turned to stare at the two women. One of them was easily recognized as Alice Longworth, but she was not the writer of the note. Columnist Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair (It Can't Happen Here) Lewis, was. One of the witnesses was Ferdinand Pecora, Justice of New York's Supreme Court. Familiar with Senate investigationl from his Job as chief inquisitor in the banking investigation of 1933-34 he easily made headlines by broaching' an argument which, if sit-down-strikes reach the proportions of a national crisis may become...
...Ferber) and You Can't Take It With You (with Moss Hart). The latter is Kaufman's 27th Broadway show. It is also his biggest sellout, since seats are on sale almost five months in advance, a Broadway record. Last week, however, in Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora's courtroom, an inside story of show business was unfolded, revealing that even Playwright Kaufman occasionally turns out a flop. For laymen the suit of Polisuk v. Kaufman shed new light on how some plays are written, doctored and produced...
Pursued Justice Pecora: "Did Kaufman promise to make a hit out of this...
First Boston's reports are interesting to a far wider group than its 9,500 stockholders. Now that Ferdinand Pecora and the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency are occupied with other things than Wall Street, First Boston's figures are the primest clue to banking house profits. In 1936 First Boston took in $7.348.000 from underwriting and trading operations, another $1,253,000 from interest and dividends, $229.000 from commission, service charges and miscellaneous sources. General expenses were...
Enlarging upon the moral values involved, Justice Pecora then defined the duties of directors thus: ''These persons are the servants of the stockholders. More than that, they are wholly and unqualifiedly trustees. Inevitably it is the duty of the courts to enforce all the obligations implicit in that fiduciary relationship...