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Epic congressional investigations of Wall Street have followed the nation's epic financial disasters: the Pujo Committee, starting in 1912, and the Pecora Commission, in 1932. Now, after a year of sometimes enlightening but mostly maddening congressional hearings about the Panic of 2008, a potential modern equivalent is under way--the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, created by Congress but populated by a mix of financial experts and smarter-than-average former elected officials. In keeping with the P-heavy historical precedents, it could be known as the Phil Commission, after chairman Phil Angelides--a former California state treasurer who lost...
...prove their charge, the Government lawyers probed practices in the banking business dating back to the 1912 Pujo investigation of the "money trust." But, as exasperated Judge Medina pointed out repeatedly, they failed to produce a single instance of deliberate conspiracy. Finally, after 16 months, the Government got down to the key part of its case: an attempt to show that the bankers had invented the syndicate system in 1915. But one of the two Government witnesses, Harold L. Stuart, 72, head of Chicago's huge Halsey, Stuart & Co., directly contradicted the Government's contentions. He said that...
Calvo, a real rock of a junior, shows marked ability to pass while running in either direction. His targets may be any of the backs--all fast--including reserve halfback Billy Scazzero; or he may flip to the likes of Captain Vic Pujo (from Lynn) and Dick Cliggott, the starting ends...
...Ehman, Pujo money up Harre," the sloe-eyed Sage demanded. "Cause everything's Jaeckel with those Crimson...
Teaming with Resenau at guard on offense is Bernie Lemonick, Pen. The tackles are Al Wehl (Michigan) and Walt Clmens (Yale); the ends, Don McLean (Columbia) and Vic Pujo (Cornel); center, John Pierik (Cornell). In the back field are Princeton's Dick Kazmater, Penn's Reds Bagnell, Yale's Bob Spears, and Larchmont Dixi Doyne, of Lehigh...