Word: custodians
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Alien Property. The property of enemy aliens, seized during the War, still lies in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian. Bills for disposing of it, and for settling the cognate problem-satisfaction of claims of U. S. citizens against Germany-languished amid disputations in committee...
...incident cost King his place as National Committeeman. His last appearance in the public eye was when he was indicted three weeks ago with Harry Micajah Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller for conspiracy in securing the payment of $7,000,000 to a Swiss corporation by the Alien Property Custodian - as a reward for which they were supposed to have received $441,000 (TIME, May 17). Dying, the former undertaker's clerk, left besides his family, the history of a unique career, a home in Bridgeport and another on Park Avenue...
...scandal and the breath of alleged corruption. Only last week another blossom opened. In Manhattan a grand jury indicted one time Attorney General Harry Daugherty, his good friend, the late Jesse Smith, John T. King, onetime Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, and Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. The charge was that certain stock of the American Metal Co. was seized by the Alien Property Custodian as German property during the War, that the stock was sold for some $7,000,000, and that in 1921 a Swiss corporation, really a blind...
...President made it known that he did not favor Federal censorship of motion pictures* but thought that the states should do whatever is necessary of that kind. He indicated that he favors the Mills bill, which would provide returning German property in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and paying American claims against Germany out of the proceeds of a U. S. bond issue, which would be retired out of the U. S. receipts under the Dawes Plan from Germany...
Some time ago Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York, suave cosmopolite, one of the ablest financiers in the House, sponsored a bill for returning German property held by the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and compensating American claimants against Germany by a U. S. bond issue to be retired out of German reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 21, CABINET). Last week Representative Garner, the Democratic leader, attacked this bill and Secretary Mellon defended it. The New York Herald Tribune (Republican) promptly attacked the bill, saying that the German property should be sold to pay the American claims...