John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie, one-time Justice of the New York Supreme Court, is the original Roosevelt man. He picked Franklin D. Roosevelt as a candidate for the State Senate in 1910, nominated him for the Presidency in Chicago in 1932. For more than a year Judge Mack has been counsel to a joint legislative committee investigating New York State public utility holding companies. He it was who, after trying in vain for six months to locate Associated Gas & Electric's Howard Colwell Hopson, aptly quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel last summer:
They seek...
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