Word: custodians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three days later, the twelve jurors, with news in their weary eyes, returned to Judge John C. Knox's Federal courtroom in Manhattan. They had decided without much trouble that onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. But 70* hours of argument and sleep under lock and key had failed to produce a verdict on onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, who was closely linked with the alien property fraud. The final vote of the jurors was eleven to one for conviction of Mr. Daugherty...
...York last week began the second conspiracy trial of one-time (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and one-time (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, who are charged with accepting part of a $441,000 melon as a reward for allowing the transfer of the seized $7,000,000 American Metal Co. stock back to the original German owners. The first trial of these gentlemen miscarried last October when the twelve jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict (TIME...
...money-Manhattan real estate was good, and at one time he owned more than anyone except John Jacob Astor-but he never raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When the War came, the government took all his property under the Alien Property Custodian's Act. George Ehret got it back again. When Prohibition came he could not quite believe it. That it should happen, such a craziness! . . . He refused to shut up his brewery. He would not let any man leave him until the man had a new job. The old brewers...
...result of all these cases investigated by the Senate Committee; the wind of suspicion shifted to Attorney General Daugherty. He was tried for contempt of court; and shortly afterwards M. A. Daugherty, and Eing were calloff to the stand on a bribery charge in the Alien Property Custodian question...
...Norman, Okla., Custodian T. I. Stark of the city dump ground stuck to his post for five days, digging diligently with a broken knife in the garbage pile, examining every orange rind and scrap of paper, until he found a tiny bit of blackened bandage. Twentyfour hours after this find, a tiny silver tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap...