Business: Loser

Having spent a fortnight questioning those who might have profited from the $5,000,000,000 evaporation of U. S. investment trust assets between 1929 and 1936, the Securities & Exchange Commission's Inquisitor David Schenker last week turned his attention to a notable loser. Up to the witness stand in Washington's SEC building stepped tall, lank Vice President Charles Franklin ("Boss") Kettermg of General Motors Corp.

A genius when it comes to a gasoline motor, Multi-millionaire Kettering is No. 3 man in the world's largest automobile concern, runs GM's great research laboratories. From last week's...

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