A milling, jostling, sweating crowd choked the corridors of the Senate Office Building. Men in white linen suits, women with hats askew and hair straggling damply into their eyes, fought to get into a stifling room long since jammed to the doors. The room was that of the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. Within was beginning the Biggest Show of its kind in recent memory: not only the public examination of the House of Morgan, but the personal appearance of the almost legendary figure who is its chief— John Pierpont Morgan.
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