Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sponsored his appointment many times. Steinhart was indicted. Officials chased him; disguised in red whiskers, through Canada. Charles Shongood, U. S. auctioneer, was removed from office, indicted for conspiracy and embezzlement. Panicky, the Federal judges in Manhattan switched bankruptcy cases from personal receivers to the American Exchange Irving Trust Co. A grand jury gathered more evidence...
...Court. Bankruptcy cases strain the integrity of the best U. S. courts. Countless dollars are held in trust by the court, countless assistants are named to administer them. The judicial machinery is cumbersome and complex, understood only by legal experts. Large are the potentialities for graft and corruption...
...conjunction of the Lindbergh tradition and the House of Morgan. The late Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr. (1860-1924) was a "radical" Congressman from Minnesota. At least "radical" is the word that J. Pierpont Morgan must have thought of when Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr. was abusing the "Money Trust" and helping to precipitate the Congressional investigation...
...interested spectator during the crusade against the "Money Trust" at that time was Dwight Whitney Morrow. He was then a member of an old Manhattan law firm. In 1914 he became a partner of J. P. Morgan...
...Morrow-Lindbergh engagement was incredible not only to dream-sick young girls. Mr. Morrow's good friend and Englewood, N. J., neighbor, potent Board Chairman Seward Prosser of the Bankers' Trust Co., could not believe his ears when he heard the announcement by radio. ¶ In Mexico City, Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, 22, five-feet-five, brunette, blue-eyed, literary, bashfully quiet, shrank from the glare of being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss...