Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chemical Foundation of Wilmington. Over two weeks have been spent by the Government in striving to prove that the transaction was " fraudulent "; because the price was "altogether inadequate" ($250,000), because President Wilson was " not properly informed" in sanctioning the sale, and because Francis P. Garvan, then Alien Property Custodian, sold patents to the Foundation of which he became President...
...name had been made in the excited rumors of Wall Street. Even President Crowell of the Stock Exchange was unaware of its critical condition. The house was, in fact, solvent on paper at the time of its failure, but its assets, including claims against the Alien Property Custodian, were frozen. The concern had long been known for its dealings in foreign exchange and silver bullion. Before the establishment of the Reserve System, the firm had during panic times done a curious but successful business in exchanging American currency, then at a premium, for American certified bank checks...
...signing the authorization for sale for President Wilson (who was then ill) was misled, 2) because the price paid was ridiculously low, 3) because the President did not have authority to make the sale, 4) because the sale was a conspiracy (Francis P. Garvan who became Alien Property Custodian about that time later became President of the Chemical Foundation), 5) because the sale was fraudulent, several American owned patents being seized and sold with the German...
...island of Heligoland, former fortified custodian of the Kiel Canal, is in the process of disintegration due to the constant explosions of dynamite under the direction of the French and British who for three years have been destroying the great fortifications implanted in solid rock by the Germans...
Worse even than this is M. Poiret's complete usurpation of the office of Honored Custodian of Better Times. An edition of Le Temps tells him that industry in America is very low and with true French thoughtfulness he undertakes the remedy. A mandolin, a creation, two ripped seams four pins and a panel. Three days later that mythical personage referred to in all the best fashion plates as milady, gives her clothes to the scullery maid, and starts a considerable circulation of bills by purchasing a new wardrobe of the latest arrivals from Paris. Within a week, American industry...