My Banker
Mayer, Milton
My Banker by MILTON MAYER Rich or poor, it's a good thing to have plenty of money in the bank. And that's what I've got. But I'm going to have to take it out as fast as I can get hold of a...
...Roy M. Cohn...
...my heart unhammered by animus, remorse, or malediction...
...I never did...
...MILTON MAYER is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts...
...Roy M. Cohn...
...Company, a diversified investment concern...
...I put my money in the University National Bank of Chicago, whose Board Chairman was Old Mr...
...My banker...
...True, says the Times now, the Federal Reserve Board is making "an inquiry, which it carefully distinguishes from an investigation," into Roy M. Cohn's group in connection with the Bank Holding Companies Act...
...Old Mr...
...except the human race, from which I resigned during the McCarthy terror because I could not abide being a member of any organization of which Roy M. Cohn was a member...
...Joe McCarthy, whose soul goes marching on, would put me on the stand and "link" me with Roy M. Cohn through the University National by way of American Steel and Pump, Saxe, Bacon & Bolan, B.S.F., Defiance Industries, and a number of other companies...
...sounder than I am...
...It is not to be...
...His most recent book, "What Can a Man Do?/' includes numerous articles originally published in The Progressive...
...Along with Defiance Industries, Inc., it controls a number of other companies...
...A couple of months ago I was idling through The New York Times, and there was a picture of Roy M. Cohn...
...When Old Mr...
...But I'm going to have to take it out as fast as I can get hold of a wheelbarrow, because I don't want my money in a bank whose Board Chairman is Roy M. Gohn...
...Cohn's law firm, Saxe, Bacon & Bolan of New York, is the company's general counsel...
...An earlier book, "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45," was recently republished as a paperback by the University of Chicago Press...
...My Banker by MILTON MAYER Rich or poor, it's a good thing to have plenty of money in the bank...
...And then to discover that Roy M. Cohn is my banker...
...I thought (as Grandma used to say) that I would go through the floor...
...I assumed that, when my time came, the University National would close my eyes, put a penny on each of them (at six-and-a-half per cent), untangle my affairs, and draw a dolorous double line under my account...
...I would be badgered, bugged, and blacklisted...
...I was guilty by association with Roy M. Cohn...
...Lackaday...
...But I am going to have to take my banking elsewhere...
...I would never have put my money in a bank whose Board Chairman was Roy M. Cohn...
...Alongside it was a long story that began: "Roy M. Cohn, who was chief counsel to the Senate Investigating Subcommittee under the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, has been elected chairman of the University National Bank of Chicago, it was announced yesterday...
...You could have knocked me over with a subpena...
...But nobody who has ever tangled with Roy M. Cohn and his group has ever come out with a whole skin...
...Control of the bank, whose assets exceed $33 million, was purchased last month by the American Steel and Pump Corporation...
...See who wins...
...The University National is still there, and so am I. It is sound...
...Anywhere else...
...Nobody who was anybody would touch me with a fork, except the devil with a pitchfork...
...I could have solemnly sworn that I am not now, and never have been, a member of any organization of which Roy M. Cohn was a member...
...Here I was, turned toward the sunset, my cup running over with blessings and my bank account with money...
...I do not want my money in a sound bank whose Board Chairman is Roy M. Cohn...
...When I moved away from Chicago, I still continued to do my banking at the University National...
...American Steel and Pump is controlled by the B.S.F...
...Hoff went to that bourne whence no check bounces, I continued to do my banking at the University National...
...Hoff sat right up in front and was glad to see everybody and everybody was glad to see him...
...The University National was a small bank, but there were those who loved it...
...Hoff...
...The good guys always lose," says Leo Durocher, or maybe Rochefoucauld...
Vol. 31 • August 1967 • No. 8
