17 NOVEMBER 1939, page 34

" Power Corrupts . . . //

Wall Street Under Oath. By Ferdinand Pecora. (Cresset Press. 8s. 6d.) THE work of the Senate Commission, whose discoveries in Wall Street's practices and ethics are summarised......

The Soil Of England

IN Farmer's Creed, his first book, Mr. Porteous began to tell the story of his escape from the prospect of life-imprison- ment in a Manchester cotton warehouse. He told there......