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Robert D. Mitchell, Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota State '32, assistant in Sanitary Engineering; Roy M. Seideman, Long Island City, New York, Long Island '36, assistant in Vital Statistics; Howard A. Potter Jr., Cambridge, instructor in Chemistry; William W. A. Johnson '36, Cambridge, assistant in Astronomy; William T. Pecora 2d, Newark, New Jersey, Princeton '33, assistant in Petrography...
...other rich men, suspected of remissness by their past or present stockholders, could readily adapt to their own needs. Last week Albert Henry Wiggin, boomtime head of Chase National Bank, offered $2,000,000 to settle stockholders' actions brought after Bankster Wiggin's embarrassing session with Ferdinand Pecora and the Senate Banking & Currency Committee in 1933. In his offer Mr. Wiggin revealed that he had already paid out more than $1,000,000 in settlement of similar suits...
Such entertaining she did against financial obstacles, for having lost most of her fortune during the Depression, she had to eke out her income by interior decorating and real estate. At times she rented her luxurious home to well-paying guests: to Otto Kahn during the Pecora investigation, to James A. Moffett while he was Federal Housing Administrator. Not till last summer did politics take a turn which promised to relieve her finances. As an ardent Roosevelt leader at the Philadelphia Convention, she undid the damage she had done herself at Chicago. The resignation of Minister Ruth Bryan Owen...
...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...
Pursued Justice Pecora: "Did Kaufman promise to make a hit out of this...