Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Morgan as Exhibit A. Against that firm was no specific charge of wrongdoing. Official corruption was not even hinted. Unquestioned was the personal honesty of its 20 partners. Yet the House of Morgan and all it stood for in U. S. economic life were as definitely on trial before the committee and the country* though defendants in a court...
...Florida, is not another "Tom"' Walsh with the mental capacity to prosecute his own investigations, Lawyer Pecora was hired last January as the committee's counsel at $255 per month. He had spent weeks ransacking the records of the House of Morgan for material for this trial of a lifetime. In his first fortnight's performance he proved himself a worthy match for white-haired John William Davis, patrician counsel for Banker Morgan...
...devise legislation to prevent its recurrence. Under scrutiny are the many fields of commercial and investment banking, stock exchange operations, security salesmanship. Slated next for examination by Lawyer Pecora and the Senators are Kuhn, Loeb; Dillon, Read. Most prominent victim to date is Charles Edwin Mitchell, now on trial for trying to escape income taxes as a result of testimony he gave the Senate last winter. Under President Hoover the Senate's inquiry was given a twist against Wall Street "bears" whom he imagined were thwarting his recovery program, beating the market down to discredit him. Under President Roosevelt...
...Ambassador Sumner Welles continued. Notorious Major Arsenio Ortiz, President Machado's favorite strong-arm man, recalled from his bloody job of stringing up provincial rebels fortnight ago (TIME, June 5), was still under technical arrest, charged with three murders. The Machado government dared not bring him to trial, not knowing how much truth lay in his oft-repeated boast that friends in the U. S. hold the original orders for every one of his political assassinations. Finally came the decision: Major Ortiz would be sent to Germany June 14, "on official business." Should he live to reach there...
...Varsity time trial was held at noontime today, when the pelting rain had provided ideal tide conditions. The beat was lifted to thirty-three for the last mile and was held there until the finish...