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...York's clubby Mayor LaGuardia appeared next with Alfred Emanuel Smith in a minstrel show of the New York lodge of Elks. Drawing the line at lampblack and red silk pantaloons, Messrs. Smith & LaGuardia wore tails, acted as interlocutors for 100 blackface minstrels including Justice Ferdinand Pecora of the New York Supreme Court...
...like criticism from Business, observers credited him with taking pains not to give Business too much offense. Soon the new Federal Communications Commission will begin a $750,000 investigation, instigated by Montana's sharpshooting Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, of huge American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Were a ruthless, inquisitorial Pecora hired as the Commission's special counsel, Business would have shuddered. Instead, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina, a conservative liberal who now has a rich corporate law practice, was persuaded by the President last week to take the job. With Max Gardner's name...
...plebeian New York Evening Journal even mailed out to all Stock Exchange members straw ballots which so alarmed the nominating committee that it dispatched a plea over the ticker requesting members to refrain from any & all unofficial voting. And from his chambers New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora issued a hasty denial that he sought to influence the coming election by an article on the stockmarket which he lately wrote for Collier...
...order? After all, under the given conditions, no great ingenuity is required to serve even passably decent food. There would appear to be only two reasons behind the present indigestive contrepas; incompetence or a form of financial looseness whose obscurity does not permit of definition. In either case, a Pecora should probe the pots and pans to gratify the not too academic curiosity of the mulcted. Who nets the rakeoff? Who fills the little tin boxes? Who gets a commission on what...
Only two short years had passed since Charles Edwin Mitchell had been driven from his tall temple by Ferdinand Pecora, whose persistent questioning before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee had forced from the banker's own lips the admissions that had damned him. Promptly indicted for Federal income tax fraud, Mr. Mitchell had fought through a harrowing six-week trial which lost him 24 Ib. in weight but won him an acquittal (TIME, July 3, 1933). In a later income tax action his counsel had declared that his client was "millions...