Business: Senate Revelations 5:1

The Senate Committee on Banking & Currency last week began the fifth chapter of its own book of revelations, a chapter which impertinent wags called "Mr. Wiggin and the Chase National Cabbage Patch." The particular efforts of Mr. Pecora were first directed to finding out what ravages the blight of Depression had wreaked in the cabbage patch and how many cabbages had constituted Mr. Wiggin's perquisite as head gardener.

When Albert Henry Wiggin sat down, the witness chair held the biggest load of banking ability which it had supported since the days when J....

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