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Bill Lincoln is tied for high ranking pitcher with Olson of Dartmouth, Gannett of Columbia, and Lindheimer of Cornell, all with perfect records, but only Lincoln and Olson have pitched two games...
...political and financial life of Minnesota. What he signed was a complaint against 19 directors of Northwest Bancorporation, charging second degree larceny for selling him ten shares of stock for $220. Farmer Bosshard was persuaded to sign the complaint by henchmen of Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson...
...unit banks, indulged in high-pressure stock selling campaigns. And its 18,000 stockholders watched their investment fade from a high of $99 per share to about $3. Early in the New Deal, having noted the fun the Senate Banking & Currency Committee was having in Washington, Governor Olson began to kettledrum about how Northwestern investors had been swindled out of $100,000,000. Forthwith he ordered his commerce commission to investigate...
...Minnesota probe included First Bank Stock Corp., the other great Northwestern exponent of group banking, but the fact that at least one official was an Olson friend seemed to temper the commerce commission's tactics with that institution. Not so with Banco: After months of investigation the commerce commission presented its findings-allegations that dividends were paid without earnings-to a grand jury in Hennepin County (Minneapolis). Promptly the grand jury voted a no bill, thus thwarting Governor Olson's determination to put someone in jail...
...Governor, who wants to socialize every bank, factory and utility in his flat State. Within a few weeks his legal henchmen turned up in the little town of Moorhead, in the northwest corner of Minnesota where Farmer-Labor strength is great. Moorhead is the Clay County seat, and the Olson prosecutors went out to see Farmer Bosshard, who was one of the 25 Banco stock-holders in the vicinity. On the basis of his complaint, without waiting for the formality of an indictment, a district judge ordered Banco's President J. Cameron Thomson and his 18 directors arrested...