Word: citizens
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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...
Five Government witnesses appeared and put it up to the jury: Did it not appear that Citizen Mellon had claimed a fake loss of $5,678,000 on Pittsburgh Coal Co. stock and of $402,000 on Western Public Service Co.? That his gross income was $9,213,000 and not $6,759,000 as reported? That his net income was $7,767,000 instead of $5,553,000? That he should have paid an income tax of $1,364,000 instead of $648,000? That he had "unlawfully, willfully, knowingly, feloniously and fraudulently attempted to defeat and evade...
Samuel Harden Church, president of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute: In seeking to justify his assault upon Mr. Mellon's character Attorney General Cummings made the announcement that it is his policy to present to each citizen the Government's tax claim, and if the full amount of that claim is not paid without any further discussion of the matter a criminal indictment will be demanded. The cool, calculating villainy of this statement has shocked America...
...group of burly Boston policemen, swinging clubs freely and shouting curses at the fleeing students. Every person in the way of the blue-coated avalanche was threatened by horses' hooves and night sticks. The right of free speech is one of the cardinal rights of a citizen of the United States and if a group of citizens has secured the right to assemble and parade, there is not reason why brawny guardians of the law should interfere. Furthermore, if interference is deemed necessary, there are two ways of doing it. The brutish tactics of the Hub policemen yesterday represents...
...most expert woman in the world on plebiscites is a U. S. citizen and her name is Sarah Wambaugh. She used to teach economics and history at Radcliffe and Wellesley. Last week the League of Nations picked her, with two men, to umpire that headline event Woodrow Wilson scheduled for sometime in 1935-the Saar plebiscite. The other umpires are Italy's Bindo Galli, president of Genoa's Court of Appeals, and Holland's L. A. Nypel, Supreme Court Justice. The three umpires will try to see that the Saar citizens, including Germans who lived...