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...York Supreme Court Justice reading him an oath of office. "I do so solemnly swear,'' snapped Mr. LaGuardia, thereupon turning and kissing the plain earnest woman who was once his secretary, is now his wife. "Now we have a Mayor of New York!" exclaimed delighted Inquisitor Seabury, who had whipped together the Fusion Party which turned bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien out of office, turned Tammany upside down. To celebrate this deed, the Evening Post's Cartoonist Sebastian Robles drew a caricature of grinning Mayor LaGuardia which, when inverted, reveals the prognathous face...
Samuel Seabury returned to Manhattan from a European vacation a few days ahead of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who had quipped that he did not dare travel on free passes so long as the famed New York inquisitor of Tam many graft was also abroad. When a newshawk reminded Mr. Seabury that "General" Farley had visited James John ("Jimmy") Walker* whom the Seabury investigation had driven discredited from City Hall into exile. Inquisitor Seabury flared: "It was not an edifying sight to see the Postmaster General of the United States make a pilgrimage to meet Mr. Walker...
...revelations in their local investigation of the Detroit bank massacre. Senator Couzens is hard to shut off, especially when he is a member of a Senate Investigating Committee. Last week a troupe of Detroit bankers were lined up against a wall of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee room while Inquisitor Pecora began writing Chapter 7 of Senate Revelations-the story of the Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc. First witness was Robert Owen Lord, president of the Group which owned 23 Michigan banks headed by big Guardian National Bank of Commerce and which foundered last February with...
Dividends, In a short time, however. Inquisitor Pecora was making Mr. Lord uncomfortable. "The units of this group were milked to pay dividends," Mr. Pecora declared, "when earnings did not justify the dividends." Mr. Lord protested. Promptly Mr. Pecora produced "form letters" nearly identical in language written by Mr. Lord to presidents of the Group's banks. One such: "To provide for the dividend requirements of the Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc. on the basis of an annual disbursement of $3.20 a share, a dividend should be declared at the June meeting of your board of directors. I would...
...last May Inquisitor Pecora of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee asked Mr. J. P. Morgan...