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...their local investigation of the Detroit bank massacre. Senator Couzens is hard to shut off, especially when he is a member of a Senate Investigating Committee. Last week a troupe of Detroit bankers were lined up against a wall of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee room while Inquisitor Pecora began writing Chapter 7 of Senate Revelations-the story of the Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc. First witness was Robert Owen Lord, president of the Group which owned 23 Michigan banks headed by big Guardian National Bank of Commerce and which foundered last February with $90,000,000 in deposits still...
...last May Inquisitor Pecora of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee asked Mr. J. P. Morgan...
...Said Mr. Pecora: "Stick to gravy...
...Pecora: Oh, this investigation is funny...
...Pecora: Quite a joke...