Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the law firms which conducted Baush's case was the Stamford one of Cummings & Lockwood, of which Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings used to be a partner. Lawyer Cummings has had a feud with Aluminum since 1925 when he argued a case against the company and lost. At...
"The best client," Frank J. Hogan tells his friends in private, "is a rich man who is scared." In Pittsburgh last week Attorney Hogan was serving the best client of his career. Andrew William Mellon had hired Washington's No. 1 criminal lawyer to play the desperate game which...
Ostensible purpose of the Board of Tax Appeals hearings which began last week in a courtroom of Pittsburgh's new Federal Building was to determine whether Andrew William Mellon owed the Government $3,075,103 in back income taxes & penalty, or whether the Government owed the onetime (1921-32...
When Attorney General Cummings announced last year that he was going to bring criminal action against Mr. Mellon for fraud in his 1931 income tax return, the old Pittsburgh financier cried "Politics of the crudest sort!" Because Homer Cummings' law firm had handled many a damage suit against the...
Having pumped his best testimony from Mr. Mellon's confidant, Counsel Jackson was forced to let Counsel Hogan make his point-of-the-week by means of a Government witness. Thumping away at his theme song of political persecution, Lawyer Hogan got a Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue to...