Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Federal Judge Julian W. Mack's Manhattan courtroom, continued the criminal trial of two members of the Harding Administration, onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller (TIME, Sept. 13, 20). They are charged with defrauding the U. S. Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" accepting part of a $441,000 melon as a reward for their speedy transfer of $7,000,000 worth of the American Metal Co.'s stock from the care of the Alien Property Custodian back to the original German...
History. Onetime (Harding Cabinet) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (Harding Cabinet) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller are under indictment and undergoing trial in Manhattan before Federal Judge Julian W. Mack. Their alleged offense is defrauding the Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" through sharing* (TIME, Sept. 13) in a $441,000 lubricant by which $7,000,000 was within 72 hours transferred from the Alien Property Custodian's custody to the Societe Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux, This $7,000,000 constituted the German-owned stock (49%) of the American Metal Co. which was held...
...Whether or not former custodian Thomas W. Miller (who succeeded Mr. Palmer as Alien Property Custodian) and former Attorney General Daugherty conspired to receive a portion of the $441,000 as a bribe, not simply as a fee. "Conspiracy" must be proved...
...December, 1920, a representative of the Swiss company wrote an attorney in New York that it had acquired the control of the Metallbank and the Metallgesellschaft in the fall of 1919 and therefore it was entitled to the $7,000,000 held by the Alien Property Custodian...
Engaged. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, manager of the Washington, D. C., baseball team; to Elizabeth Sutherland, daughter of Alien Property Custodian and onetime (1917-23) Senator Howard Sutherland...