Word: harriman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 1932 Joseph Wright Harriman was quietly retired from the presidency of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank by "promotion" to chairman. In March 1933 the Harriman bank failed to open after the banking holiday and Banker Harriman, arrested on the charge of having falsified his bank's books, was arraigned in court on a stretcher. In May 1933, Banker Harriman, having escaped from a sanitarium to suburban Long Island, futilely pinked his bosom with a butcher knife. Last week Banker Harriman, wearing a grey suit and a Panama hat, walked into court to stand trial...
...counsel table sat U. S. Attorney George Zerdin Medalie who recently prosecuted Banker Charles E. Mitchell. At the other sat Defender "Wild Bill" Donovan. With his dignified wife beside him, Banker Harriman sat apart, gazing rather vacantly into space, playing with his panama. Instead of proceeding to select a jury, Col. Donovan rose and told Federal Judge Caffey that Mr. Harriman was unable to give him any coherent or rational help in preparing the defense. Col. Donovan asked that the court determine Banker Harriman's mental competence before the trial. He produced six affidavits, one from Mrs. Harriman declaring...
Another affidavit from Banker Harriman's accountant said his answers to questions were confused or irrelevant. Four affidavits from doctors said he was suffering from coronary thrombosis, arteriosclerosis and diabetes, that his mind was impaired by disease, anxiety, prolonged saturation with alcohol and the use of drugs...
...answer Mr. Medalie pointed out that a man of advanced years and social position would naturally suffer a severe shock at being brought to book for a serious crime. He did not want Banker Harriman's sanity tried by a lay jury but rather by Judge Caffey himself...
After contrasting such empire-builders as "Mister Harriman." "Mister Vanderbilt," J. P. Morgan. "Mister Mellon" and Bruce Barton with Trailblazer Meriwether Lewis, Poet MacLeish concludes: You have just beheld the Makers making America: They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...