Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Wilson nor onetime (1919-21) Alien Property Custodian Francis Patrick Garvan was actuated by any but patriotic motives in selling German dye patents to the Chemical Foundation. The patents, sold for $271,000, are alleged to have been worth millions, and Mr. Garvan is now president of the Chemical Foundation. But Alexander Mitchell Palmer, previous (1917-1919) Alien Property Custodian had been empowered during his office by the President to make the sale though the transaction was not effected until Mr. Garvan's regime. Suit to recover was brought by President Harding's administration, under agency...
Then, one day last week, they awoke to the hard reality of deciding on the conspiracy or innocence of onetime (1921-24) U. S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, who were charged with fraudulently allowing the transfer of $7,000,000 in stock in the American Metal Co. back to the original German owners. The defense lawyers had summed up their cases. Colonel William Rand, attorney for Colonel Miller, did it curtly. Max D. Steuer, in behalf of Mr. Daugherty, did it emotionally.* Prosecutor Emory Buckner in his final address...
Later Juror No. 8 told the press that the jury stood ten to two for conviction of onetime Alien Property Custodian Miller, and six to six on onetime Attorney General Daugherty...
...Steuer and Colonel William S. Rand, attorneys for Defendants Daugherty and one-time (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, then began the defense. Throughout the trial defense attorneys have repeatedly urged dismissal of the case on the ground that the line of evidence offered in no way implicated the defendants. Now further defense was offered that since the $7,000,000 transfer-transaction had been consummated by assistants with but slight knowledge on the part of the defendants, therefore Mr. Miller and Mr. Daugherty could not be said to have "conspired" to put these claims through...
Married. Mary Elizabeth Sutherland, daughter of Alien Property Custodian Howard Sutherland of West Virginia; to Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris, Manager of the Washington baseball team; at Washington...