Word: pimpernels
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...tagged with the biggest batch of income tax liens ever filed in Manhattan-a total of more than $53,000,000. Filed in Newark were other liens against Associated companies in New Jersey for $5,400,000. A personal action for $1,500,000 was started against Howard ("Scarlet Pimpernel") Hopson, Associ-ated's slick, roly-poly boss...
...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...
That demmed elusive Pimpernel...
...Scarlet Pimpernel hasn't a damned thing on Hopson," cried jolly Judge Mack...
...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...