Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best client," Frank J. Hogan tells his friends in private, "is a rich man who is scared." In Pittsburgh last week Attorney Hogan was serving the best client of his career. Andrew William Mellon had hired Washington's No. 1 criminal lawyer to play the desperate game which the New Deal had forced upon the 79-year-old onetime (1921-32) Secretary of the Treasury. The New Deal's stake: $139,045 and the reputation of its Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, charged with forcing the game for personal spite and political advantage. Mr. Mellon...
...first week, the Government spent most of last week plodding through the maze of Andrew Mellon's security portfolios, brokerage accounts, private ledgers, holding companies, in an effort to prove that by juggling his securities among them he had fraudulently established the losses which he claimed in his 1931 tax return (TIME, March 4). All facts & figures came from Mr. Mellon's longtime private secretary, Howard M. Johnson, a frail, grey little man seated pale and trembling behind a stack of ledgers and account books. In the handsome, high-ceilinged courtroom, with only a scattering of typical courtroom...
...back to counsel for Mellon. For two and one-half hours, face flushed and eyes snapping, Lawyer Hogan peppered the Government's charges and innuendoes with crackling sarcasm and Irish wit. But when the fireworks were over the only memorable fact to stand revealed was that in 1931 Andrew Mellon was worth some...
...stubs of the Morgan volume contain the names of a score of prominent Revolutionary figures, among whom are Andrew Craigie, apothecary-general of the Revolutionary Army; Edward Livingston, the distinguished jurist; Brockholst, Livingston, a prominent figure in American legal life and later Justice of the Supreme Court; Joseph Barrell and James Watson, noted New York merchants; Comfort Sands, founder of the Atlantic Magazine and co-editor with William Cullon Bryant; and John Pintard, a book collector who founded the Massachusetts and New York Historical Societies...
...John Andrew Moore '38, of Clayton, Missouri, was elected president of the Union Society last night before the debate held in the Union...