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...Connor had a hunch. In 1933, he recalled, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, attorney for A. G. & E., had finally produced Mr. Hopson for the Senate Stock Exchange investigation after Ferdinand Pecora's agents had been vainly hunting him for more than six weeks. Forthwith Chairman O'Connor sped his men off to Leesburg, Va. whence they could swoop down on Belmont, Mr. Hurley's nearby estate, take Mr. Hopson by surprise...
...traditional patron by way of his brother, Edward Schwab, who now manages most of the old steelmaster's business affairs. Brother Edward said he had no funds available but if a buyer could be found for the Schwab Stutz holdings, he would loan the proceeds to the company. Forthwith the Stutz bankers produced one Samuel Genis, who took an option on the 30,000 shares and who was missing last week when SEC wanted to question him. So far as the Schwabs were concerned, the transaction ended then & there...
...executive order the President forthwith created a National Youth Administration, with Aubrey Williams as executive director, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche as executive committee chairman. Following the usual New Deal formula, there were to be 48 State Youth Divisions under 48 State Youth Directors, plus Youth Committees in cities, towns, counties. Beneficiaries would be all boys & girls aged 16 to 25 not regularly attending school...
...Emma Fisher who has never forgotten her chagrin of 14 years ago when she went to Switzerland as a delegate to an Anglo-American Music Conference. There she discovered that Britons could sing and that her U.S. companions could not. The Britons boasted of their many choral societies and forthwith choral singing became bustling Emma Fisher's platform. Last spring she visited Detroit, talked to influential citizens whose enthusiasm grew strong when the Juilliard Foundation offered to lend $5,000, when Mrs. Frederick M. Alger agreed to head the festival committee. The Alger name is big in Detroit...
...disloyalty and insubordination." Furious, President Bernard, on whose Manhattan office wall hangs the motto: "To be Right is Desirable, To Seem Right is Essential," seized pen, dispatched to Cousin Richard a telegram: "YOU ARE HEREBY SUSPENDED AS AN OFFICER AND EMPLOYE OF GIMBEL BROS. INC. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FORTHWITH LEAVE THE STORE. YOUR AUTHORITY TO ISSUE ANY ORDERS OR IN ANY WAY ACT FOR THE COMPANY IS HEREBY WITHDRAWN. YOUR UNAUTHORIZED ACTION . . . CONCERNING MR. KAUFMANN AT A TIME WHEN YOU KNEW DIRECTORS WERE CON- TEMPLATING NOT TO RE-ELECT YOU TO OFFICE COMPELS THIS IMMEDIATE ACTION...