"Condition Aggravated"

Snug as a woodchuck old Samuel Insull had holed in last week in his Athens apartment while two potent gatherings debated his future and his past. In Athens the entire Greek Cabinet, which had once decided to deport him Jan. 31, argued his future for two hours. The Foreign Minister, having taken the brunt of U. S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh's ire, was for deportation, the Minister of Interior against. Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was on the fence. The spell of cold, wet weather Greece has been having decided the argument. Premier Tsaldaris announced that "in the present inclement weather, it would be murder to deport Mr. Insull unless his health improves." Given his cue, Insull's Greek lawyer moaned: "It is impossible to imagine Mr. Insull traveling. He is practically dying as it is." His Greek doctor confined himself to: "Condition aggravated." In other words the Greek Government was ready to let him remain so long as he stayed in bed. But Ambassador MacVeagh wired the State Department that he was sure he could get Insull out of Greece within two weeks.

In far-off Chicago Insull's kingly past last week interested Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley, grilling Chicago bankers to see whether fraud had been practiced in getting him to grant a receivership to Insull's great Middle West Utilities Co. Bankers described the uneasy last days of secret meetings and suspicions before the April 1932 crash of Insull's jerry-built Jericho. Said the First National Bank's executive vice president, slow-spoken, huge-shouldered Edward Eagle Brown: "We didn't discuss all this in Mr. Insull's presence. He was the most dominating man I ever knew. You wouldn't discuss such things in his presence--not if you knew Mr. Insull you wouldn't."

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