Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made as to whether he failed "to exert every reasonable effort" to make an agreement with his employees or to maintain it once he had agreed? To determine the motive, the board is to have power to compel the submission of all books, papers, data, and figures and to subpoena anybody in the United States in any jurisdiction and summon them to Washington by telegraph or letter and compel attendance...
...wipe out "bills payable" for a few days-window dressing to prevent depositors from catching fright. Meantime other officers of the defunct banking group, including Ernest Kanzler, Edsel Ford's brother-in-law, sat squirming in their chairs. None of Detroit's industrial elite under subpoena felt any easier as two agents of the Department of Justice stood in the shadows and noted down any admissions which could be used as a basis for criminal prosecutions...
...development which has raised gooseflesh on the sensitive epidermis of these moguls is the news that the government will subpoena forty bank presidents so that they may shed some verbal illumination on their financial practices. An added horror was lent to the announcement, when the financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless...
...Exchange's members, a study of some 10,000,000 accounts of customers with brokers. The Exchange refused to answer, saying it had no authority to gather such information. Promptly a dozen prominent brokers were summoned to Washington for questioning and Inquisitor Pecora threatened to subpoena all 1,375 members. The brokers went, told the committee that it would cost $5,000,000 to examine their records for all the data requested, offered to answer a more reasonable questionnaire confined to larger accounts, not requiring a complete re-audit of books for the last five years. Relenting, Mr. Pecora...
Last January the grandson, Wilfred Chester Leland Jr., walked uninvited into an "old times party" at the Ford Laboratory in Dearborn and slapped into the lean hands of Henry Ford a long-delayed subpoena ordering him to appear and testify in a suit brought by a onetime Philadelphia Lincoln agency. Henry Ford never testified, but he and his son Edsel furnished depositions in which they denied, as they have always done, any agreement to pay off Lincoln's former creditors and stockholders. Last week an eleven-man jury (one was dismissed for expressing his opinion of Henry Ford ) ordered...