Business & Finance: Bear Hunt (Cont'd)

In hope of catching a great big Democratic bear with its paws all sticky with short-selling honey, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee last week resumed its investigation of buying & selling practices on U. S. stock exchanges (TIME, April 25, et seq.). John Jacob Raskob was on the witness stand. Witness Raskob quietly sought to prove that his principal business is "trying to make good Democrats out of misguided Republicans," not being a big bad Bear.

Smoldering political tinder blazed frequently. Democratic Senator Glass immediately...

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