Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectacular as is the Government's effort to convict one Manhattan big banker of tax evasion, not so spectacular is it as another which last week was suggested: an effort to catch Andrew William Mellon for tax evasion. Louis T. McFadden, Congressman from Pennsylvania, charged in the House that Mr. Mellon in 1931 had sold 60,000 shares of Western Public Service, and 123,000 shares of Pittsburgh Coal to establish losses of $6,700,000, had through a Mellon-owned corporation repurchased them 31 days after the sale. Said Attorney General Cummings: "The charges are serious...
...Sing Sing Prison, the lilies on the chapel's altar at Easter services had been grown by Convict Owen ("Owney") Madden, famed Manhattan beer baron...
When Peter J. Curtis was sentenced to grey-walled Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N. Y. for robbery, he was a sign-painter. Instead of planning a jailbreak, Convict Curtis found his escape on canvas, painting in the barred funnel of light in his cell. Last year the warden gave him a studio to teach other convicts his idea of escape (TIME...
...Dannemora art school, no one paints his environment. All go as far away as possible from Dannemora's stone walls. Teacher Curtis paints pictures that look like calendars in village postoffices: an Indian, a landscape, a glossily highlighted Flemish Fisher. His star pupil, Convict R. Rehm, has faithfully copied Gainsborough's Blue Boy and painted an original picture of rearing, free Wild Horses from his own dreams. Even the wild horses shine with idealism. Another pupil, Convict H. Nelson, produces pictures like railroad travel posters advertising any place but Dannemora...
...sentenced to death, later having his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Last week the Mooney Defense Committee asked and was granted a trial on the one untried indictment. District Attorney Matthew Brady withdrew from the case because he said he did not have sufficient evidence to convict, did not believe Mooney guilty. If he wins his trial, Mooney will have basis for a new pardon plea...