<i>Title:</i> Senate Committee hears Van Swerigan official. Washington, D.C., May 11. known for many years as the closest business associate of the late Van Swerigan brothers, Herbert Fitzpatrick, Vice President and General council for two major units in vast Van Swerigan rail empire, was quizzed today by the Senate Committee investigating railroad financing. Chairman Wheeler charged that the late O.P. Van Swerigan acted "directly in defiance" of ICC orders by having the Van Swerigan-controlled Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad purchase in 1930 an option for stock of the Chicago and Illinois Railroad. Fitzpatrick answered by declaring the C&amp;O voted to buy the option because "it was their judgement the O.&amp;E. I[?] should properly be grouped with the C&amp;O" roger brennan, counsel for Fitzpatrick, is shown on left, 5/11/1937
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Harris &amp; Ewing, photographer
1937
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