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...flaw in Lawyer Satterlee's case seems to be his statement that 'Pierpont . . . did not lend any money on [a] second shipment of carbines.' Lewis Corey, in The House of Morgan (1930) quotes the Reports of the House of Representatives to show that Morgan filed a bill with the Government for 58,175 for a second batch of carbines, a claim on which an investigating committee later allowed him $11,008." Mr. Corey misled your reviewer. Morgan never filed any bill with anyone, or made any claim against the Government. No committee, commission or court ever said...
There is no significance to Mr. Satterlee's stress on two shipments and to his statement that Morgan "did not lend any money on [a] second shipment of carbines" (I make no statement to the contrary in my book). For the two shipments involved one transaction -Morgan paid for the whole 5,000 carbines, while the claim on the Government was not for payment on the second shipment but for balance due on the whole 5,000 carbines [when all had been delivered]. Ketchum testified that Morgan "refused to allow the others to go until he received the money...
...shipowners grew surer that there would be a market for sale and charter of their vessels as goods piled up on U. S. wharves. Still in the free port of Staten Island awaiting shipment to France were many of the 5,000 trucks ordered for the French Army. In the Texas ports of Galveston and Houston, warehouses bulged with thousands of bales of cotton long overdue at their European destination. Two months ago New York elevators were so choked with wheat that rail shipments had to be halted. Imports were similarly delayed...
...that not only was it shipping material to the Finns but that Italy and Spain were also sending arms, airplanes and volunteers via France - in Spain's case, shipping Russian material that had been captured in the Civil War. (This was promptly denied in Madrid.) Argentina authorized the shipment of 50,000 tons of wheat to Finland, that country to pay when she pleased. Both Brazil and Colombia announced donations of coffee. The Canadian Red Cross set aside $50,000 for relief work...
...planes lined up on fields, and shrouded bomber fuselages being loaded on freighters or falling into harbor mud. But aside from aircraft it has seen little concrete evidence of war orders. Last week (see cut) 478 Studebaker trucks on a Staten Island dock in New York Harbor readied for shipment to the Allied Armies, provided the first good view of nonplane war orders in the flesh...