Business & Finance: O. P. & M. J. Railroad

O.P. & M. J. Railroad

Having learned how the greatest private banking house in the U. S. operates, the members of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee learned last week how a great railroad system may be put together.

Because one of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s deals was the financing of Alleghany Corp., Mr. Pecora sent to Cleveland and brought the bachelor brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen posting to the Capital, put "O. P." upon the stand and kept him there four solid days.

No wholly tractable witness was "O. P." His...

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