Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly a U. S. attorney began informing them about notable items on the 1931 tax return of one Andrew William Mellon, Pittsburgh citizen...
Next morning the Pittsburgh grand jury filed into the court room and handed to the judge the Government's charges with the words written across their face: "Not a True Bill." The jury's refusal to indict spared Andrew William Mellon the humiliation of having to defend himself in court on the charge that, as Secretary of the Treasury, he had brazenly and deliberately tried to cheat on his income tax return...
...their black silk gowns and dainty lace jabots are the 15 judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague, better known as the World Court. It is their privilege to meet in one of the pleasantest, most impressive of courtrooms, the great Peace Palace built by Andrew Carnegie in 1913. To underwrite their deliberations all member nations pay, through the League of Nations, annual sums totaling about $500,000 (each judge's salary is $18,000 a year), and are expected to lay before the court for final settlement their gravest international problems...
Common Task, When Yankee Methodists in 1844 sought to oust Bishop James Osgood Andrew as a slave-owner. Southerners objected that under Methodist law that was no ground. The two branches shortly parted. Fortnight ago in the episcopal address delivered by Rt. Rev. John M. Moore of Dallas, representing the mind of the Southern Church's 14 living bishops, one passage read: "We cherish the hope that at some time we shall be wise enough to find a way whereby a united Methodist may with undivided energies and unwasted resources deliver her full strength upon the common task...
Century Titans. When he died in May 1931, the fortune of the man who had intimately affected the destinies of John Pierpont Morgan, James Jerome Hill, Andrew Carnegie and many a lesser light was estimated as high as $500,000,000. Last week the State Transfer Tax Bureau appraised it at $73,209,683 net as of the date of his death. But if it had all been dumped on last week's market, it would have fetched less than $53,000,000.* To get their hands on it, the Baker heirs had to pay a State and Federal...