Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
...fear of murdering him by the shock of arrest, a U. S. marshal took up his stand in the hall of the Harriman apartment and two doctors, one of them appointed by the U. S. Attorney, examined Mr. Harriman. "Coronary thrombosis," they said, "a very precarious condition." But the warrant was read to the patient, a U. S. Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain pen, he signed a $25,000 bail bond. "Is that all?" he demanded peremptorily...
...great pity had the public for this 66-year-old bankster. The warrant on which he was arrested accused him of misappropriating over $300,000 of his depositors' funds. The charges as developed by the U. S. Attorney outlined a far larger story: that following the stockmarket crash of 1929 Harriman had made an attempt to maintain the price of his bank's stock at about $1,350 a share (1929 earnings were $55 a share and later earnings declined). He actually succeeded in maintaining the price in that neighborhood until April 1932. At that time the Harriman...
...admission to courses in Petrography and Economic Geology. Mineralogy 2 is a full course. The laboratory work conducted by Mr. Modell is the most important part of the course. The assigned work can nearly always be done in the five hours required, but it is interesting enough to warrant a few extra hours checking up on experiments. Professor Palache gives very charming lectures, enlarging upon the laboratory work and adding color here and there by relating incidents from his own many experiences with Mineralogy. The work in this course is not easy and it is difficult to get honor marks...
...fitting now to consider whether this employment plan is not sufficiently valuable to both the University and the students involved in order to warrant its continuation in more prosperous years and perhaps its installation as a permanent feature...