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...Congressional show not unlike last week's. Then it was Samuel Untermyer (75 last week) v. John Pierpont Morgan Sr. Minnesota's Representative Charles Augustus Lindbergh, whose son later married the daughter of a Morgan partner, had called for an inquiry into the "Money Trust." Chairman Arsene Pujo of the House Banking & Currency Committee set the stage. The first day the elder Morgan spent 17 minutes on the witness stand and was so upset by Inquisitor Untermyer that he could not name his ten partners. The second and last day he was again master of himself, barking...
Very courteous were the Senators to their guests. Very affable Mr. Morgan, wholly unlike his dictatorial father who gave blunt answers to the Pujo Committee 20 years ago. Very earnest-every inch the prosecutor-was Mr. Pecora. Very courtly Morgan's learned counsel. Mr. Davis. Only flare-ups of anger were between testy Senator Glass and Mr. Pecora over the course which the inquiry was taking. Mr. Glass, long a severe critic of our bankers, grew impatient with the mass of curiosity-questions not pertinent to the banking questions. Senator most critical of Morgan was Mr. Couzens...
...Faith. Q, Are not depositors entitled to statements of Morgan & Co.'s condition? A. They can have them if they want them; no one has ever asked. Q. Has any public statement of this fact ever been made except when the Elder Morgan testified before the Pujo Committee 20 years ago? A. (by Mr. Morgan) "No. That is the only public statement we have ever made about anything...
...dividends. The bank always took a leading part in the Nation's industrial affairs, and Mr. Baker was dismayed when the Government pointed out that the bank could not own stocks. But he conceived of the security affiliate, an instrument of finance soon to find wide favor. In the Pujo investigation of 1913 Mr. Baker testified that he had acquired over half the stock of Chase National which he carried for the account of First National, although there was no record to show that First National really owned the stock. "It was just a matter of your word?" asked Samuel...
Such, in excerpt, are the authentic words wherewith a Christian may be thoroughly damned by the Roman Catholic Church. But not every Catholic who is excommunicated is damned so wholeheartedly. There are degrees. For example, M. Maurice Pujo, famed Managing Editor of the French Royalist newspaper L'Action Française (TIME, July 4, 1927 and Dec. 19), was permitted to be married at Paris last week, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic Church, although not long ago he was excommunicated (TIME, April...