Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Counsel Jackson had time that day to question Mr. Mellon on only six of the nine tax-reducing schemes listed. Mr. Mellon admitted that he had used five of them...
...Mellon indignantly denied that he had done any such thing. Grimly the Government's Chief Counsel Robert H. Jackson presented him with the memorandum in question. Mr. Mellon blinked, adjusted his eyeglasses, stared long at the paper as it rattled in his trembly hands. Then he cried eagerly: "It bears no date. How do you know it was prepared during my term? It is merely addressed to the Secretary...
...days later Counsel Jackson once more caught the Pittsburgh multimillionaire clearly off base. In 1931 Mr. Mellon sold 123,622 shares of Pittsburgh Coal Co. stock to his Union Trust Co. for $500,000, claiming a $5,600,000 loss for income tax purposes, after which the shares were purchased by a Mellon family folding company. Last week Mr. Mellon declared that he had wanted to unload the stock for years but could find no takers. Tightlipped, menacing, Counsel Jackson advanced on the witness. "You don't mean to say," barked he, "that you had no opportunity to sell...
...sure of that?" "I haven't any doubt about it." Counsel Jackson whirled, whipped from a stack of papers a deposition made by Mr. Mellon in a trial in 1934. in it he had testified that he had three times refused Frank E. Taplin's offer of $10,000,000 for 100,000 shares of Pittsburgh Coal. The first offer was made on June...
...north end of the governing committee room'' in the Stock Exchange Building to explain some of the goings-on that the Exchange considers "unconscionable." Having a number of other worries and no desire to appear before a body which does not permit "defendants" benefit of counsel, Mr. Andrews regretted the invitation.' Last week the Exchange announced that it would apply to the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington for permission to strike Hupp stock from the list...