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Nine years have passed since Montana's grim-jawed Senator "Tom" Walsh, before a breathless audience that packed the big marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, hammered out the questions & answers which sent Harry Sinclair to jail for contempt, put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars as a bribe-taker. Nine years have made the Oil Scandal investigation ancient political history. But its drama, its sensationalism, its clash and color of personalities were recalled by Washington observers who searched for something with which to compare the Senate's investigation of the House of Morgan...
...provides that each director must personally know that the accountants and experts were capable of making an accurate report, etc. Furthermore, since they are equally liable for all losses, it remained to be seen whether accountants and experts would dare to take the chance of going into bankruptcy and jail for any mistake they might make. And, in any case, Felix Frankfurter's ex-pupils who are now corporation lawyers doubted whether "experts" could supply all the information which directors would have to sign...
...friend as loyal as his own boast, the darling of his salad days and toast of the old Savoy. Peggy Primrose, now plump Mrs. Peggy Lowe. His last gesture was to refuse an allowance of ?1 a week from the bitter, hollow-cheeked printer who sent him to jail and smashed his career: Reuben Bigland...
Doctors, his own disciples, the British Government all thought he was signing his death warrant. Rather than have him die on its hands, the Government let him out of jail. St. Gandhi retired to Lady Thackersey's terrace and for three weeks swallowed nothing at all save little sips of water flavored with soda and salt. His weight dropped from 99 to 80 lb., he lay in semicoma, but amazed doctors continued to announce that his physical condition was good...
...their frauds tries to retaliate by hiring a girl detective (Madge Evans). She falls in love with Stevens and he with her until he finds in her purse a check from the traction company's lawyer. To prevent her testifying against him, Stevens marries her. She goes to jail for perjury but not until she ha? convinced her husband of her loyalty to him. He gets her out by framing an automobile accident to involve the traction company's lawyer. Mr. Calhoun. Of all Lawyer Stevens' machinations, this one is the most expert. He has Floppy jump...