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Many a San Franciscan last week learned for the first time that one of his city's most famed financiers and business men, President Herbert Fleishhacker of Anglo California National Bank, had been sued by stockholders of the bank "to obtain an accounting and recover secret profits on behalf of said bank." When his case went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could...
...case involved transactions dating back to 1919, in which M. Barde & Sons of Seattle and Portland was engaged in the resale of Government steel left over from the War. According to their testimony, three years ago certain Anglo Bank stockholders, mostly members of the great French banking group Lazard Freres, discovered that Banker Fleishhacker had the Anglo Bank lend the Bardes $325,000 to finance the deal but had kept for himself some $300,000 other monies which the Bardes gave him after they had traded the steel...
Holding that "the law will not permit an officer of a corporation to make a private profit for himself in the discharge of his official duties," Judge St. Sure ordered Banker Fleishhacker to give an accounting to the Anglo stockholders. Heavy-jowled Herbert Fleishhacker retorted: "We'll appeal and win." His lawyer, quick-tongued John Francis Neylan, sniffed: "I view the matter as a rather interesting development in an episode that is far from ended...
During a dinner given on July 27, in celebration of the Anglo-Turkish treaty at Berlin, Benjamin Disraeli characterized William Gladstone, Liberal opponent of the Prime Minister's Eastern policy, as "a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself."-ED. Details...
...Church of England's most famed and deepest-red radical. Grandson of the Earl of Gainsborough, he went to public schools, to Cambridge, to Chichester Theological College, and, he says, "completed my education in the doss-houses of South London." For 27 years Father Noel, an Anglo-Catholic, has been vicar of Thaxted, a small parish near Cambridge. Of his early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became very keen, especially the young and the poor. During...