Business & Finance: Crowley for Cummings

"A Big Job, Well Done—Franklin D. Roosevelt."

In the President's own handwriting that tribute was engraved on a silver plaque and the plaque presented last week to Walter Joseph Cummings, outgoing chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Its donors were officials of the corporation from which the RFC had plucked Mr. Cummings to represent the Government's majority stock interest in Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. With Mr. Cummings comfortably settled as board chairman and "chief executive" of Continental Illinois, President Roosevelt got around last week to picking his...

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