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Despite the vigorous opposition of Representative Hamilton Fish '10, and others, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has recommended to the legislature an Arms Embargo Bill giving the President the right to join with such countries in a boycott agreement as he sees fit if he believes the circumstances warrant it. All good Republicans are up in arms against what they feel is a revolutionary measure placing an amount of power in the Executive's hands greater than anything heretofore: the power virtually to make war independently of the Senate...
Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
...fear of murdering him by the shock of arrest, a U. S. marshal took up his stand in the hall of the Harriman apartment and two doctors, one of them appointed by the U. S. Attorney, examined Mr. Harriman. "Coronary thrombosis," they said, "a very precarious condition." But the warrant was read to the patient, a U. S. Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain pen, he signed a $25,000 bail bond. "Is that all?" he demanded peremptorily...
...great pity had the public for this 66-year-old bankster. The warrant on which he was arrested accused him of misappropriating over $300,000 of his depositors' funds. The charges as developed by the U. S. Attorney outlined a far larger story: that following the stockmarket crash of 1929 Harriman had made an attempt to maintain the price of his bank's stock at about $1,350 a share (1929 earnings were $55 a share and later earnings declined). He actually succeeded in maintaining the price in that neighborhood until April 1932. At that time the Harriman...
...fitting now to consider whether this employment plan is not sufficiently valuable to both the University and the students involved in order to warrant its continuation in more prosperous years and perhaps its installation as a permanent feature...