Word: cumberlandism
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...favors to friends. The Government produced records of two $1,000 checks May had pocketed, a $2,500 deposit in his account by Murray Garsson, an old $5,000 note Murray had obligingly paid off at the bank. But the biggest payoff was an enterprise known as the Cumberland Lumber Co., conveniently located in Andy's home town of Prestonsburg, Ky. The owners were Murray and Henry Garsson; their agent was Andy...
...Garssons had put more than $50,000 into Cumberland for lumber they never received. One former Garsson employee testified that he had been ordered to juggle the books to show orders and receipts for nonexistent lumber. The Government insisted that Cumberland was simply a blind to shield the fat bribes Andy May extracted from the Garssons...
...last February the Council committee on the Salzburg enterprse had already secured the 30-room Cumberland castle, 40 miles from the city, as the site of the seminar. But through the continued efforts of the International Student service at Geneva, the more modern facilities of theatrical producer Mex Reinhardt's old home of Leopoldskron are now available...
Memorable nickleodeon flickers and documentary films are included in a six-program motion pictures series opening February 11 at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall with "A Nous La Liberte," "ballad of the liberties not permitted by the modern world," and "People of Cumberland," a story of education in the Tennessee hills...
...that May had gotten something more tangible than pleasure out of his wartime career. There was talk of packets of $1,000 and $3,000 sent him from the Garsson's Washington office. There was the peculiar circumstance that May had endorsed a check as president of the Cumberland Lumber Co., which the Garssons paid for lumber which was never delivered or even...