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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Couzens, an original Ford incorporator, acquired his stock (2,180 shares) for some $40,000, prior to 1908, and sold it for some 30 millions in 1919. When Henry and Edsel Ford sought to buy him out in 1919, the Internal Revenue Bureau calculated that $9,489.34 per share was a fair price. Senator Couzens ultimately obtained $13,444 per share. He paid the U. S. a profits tax on the difference between the Revenue Bureau's fair price estimate and the price he received. That was in 1919 and the business seemed finished...
...years later, during an investigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau by a Couzens-headed committee of the Senate, Senator Couzens was notified that his profit-tax payment of 1919 had been far from adequate; please to pay some $10,000,000 more. Senator Couzens charged that some one in the Treasury Department had been told to look up his back tax returns and see if anything could be "gotten on him." But the Treasury Department denied this and said that the 1919 Ford stock profit item had been called to its attention by a letter-writer. The Treasury said that...
Announcement of the completion of 15 months of research work in Africa by R. L. Buell, formerly an assistant professor of Government at Harvard, was made yesterday by Professor G. G. Wilson of the Bureau of International Research...
...defense case was thus rested almost entirely upon the testimony of Captain John K. Robison, U. S. N. retired. Robison stated that he, as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Engineering in 1921 had made the suggestion which led Secretary of the Navy Denby to have President Harding transfer Teapot Dome to the Interior Department. It was his idea and Secretary Denby's he said, to have Fall lease the oil reserve to some company which would build tanks, and store oil for the Navy. Also, there would be royalties. Secrecy was urged because...
Edwin L. James is a more than potent correspondent. From his sunny, second floor office on the Rue de la Paix he directs the Paris bureau of the New York Times. He is pungent, direct, slangy-and yet he loves nice things. For example he has a penchant for sheer shirts of purest silk embroidered: "E. L. J." Recently stocky dynamic Correspondent James threw his shirts together in Paris and set out for Rome...