Word: pimpernels
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...more than a year Judge Mack has been counsel to a joint legislative committee investigating New York State public utility holding companies. He it was who, after trying in vain for six months to locate Associated Gas & Electric's Howard Colwell Hopson, aptly quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel last summer...
...Washington to the Hotel Shoreham to ask Bernard B. Robinson, Hopson's "Washington representative", whether he knew where his boss was. At the desk of the Shoreham whom should Mr. Jurney bump into but beefy, bad-tempered Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, who captured "Pimpernel" Hopson fortnight...
...rival House investigators. Flanked by two deputies, Sergeant Jurney plunked himself in the rear seat of an official Senate limousine. Three newshawks scrambled in with them. Behind, in a dozen other cars and taxicabs, came more newshawks and photographers. The chase was on, the chase for elusive Howard Colwell ("Pimpernel") Hopson, roly-poly boss of the much besooted Associated Gas & Electric System...
...steps. Prize of the chase was big black headlines for either Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Investigating Committee or Chairman Black of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee, depending on which one's agents first thrust a subpoena into the hands of Howard Colwell ("Scarlet Pimpernel") Hopson, missing master of Associated Gas & Electric Co. (TIME, July...
...swarmed over the Shoreham, rapped at doors, questioned employes. The girl at the cigar counter had sold a cigar to a short, fat man with a fine disposition. Some bellboys thought they remembered such a man. The hunters looked in the Hopson closets, bathroom, under the Hopson bed. But "Pimpernel" Hopson had vanished once more...