Word: pecora
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...With his Pecora sword in hand For months the Wallstreet foe he sought, So rested he by the Tugwell tree And smiled a while in thought...
Sirs: I didn't know there were any left. For Melville Phillips to admit (TIME, July 16) himself "a speculator" and his "account under-margined." Mr. Pecora must be falling down...
...Harvard Law School professor and the youngest judge (30) ever to be elevated to the Massachusetts Superior bench, was made general counsel. Closer to Wall Street was the appointment of David Saperstein as head of the Commission's trading division, which under the gleaming eye of Commissioner Ferdinand Pecora will henceforth police U. S. stock-market trading...
...receive his inspiration from Felix Frankfurter and the Harvard Law School. From Columbia he returned across the Hudson to his home town of Union City, N. J., where he soon entered the firm of Platoff, Saperstein & Platoff. The Platoffs and the Sapersteins were old neighbors in suburban Weehawken. Mr. Pecora took him to Washington as his chief assistant in the Senate Banking & Currency Committee investigation. David Saperstein used to play semi-pro baseball, now loves poker and the writing of unpublished plays...
...after the election Commissioner Pecora left Washington for Manhattan, did not attend any more S.E.C. meetings all week. He was careful to explain, however, that he was simply winding up his personal affairs in Manhattan preparatory to moving to Washington to devote all his time to "putting the child on its feet...