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Married. Dorothy Bob, 22, daughter of Arch-Promoter Charles Victor Bob; and Andrew Cook McGill, 27, son of President James C. McGill of Territorial Hotels Corp. of Hawaii; in Manhattan. Court recess during his trial for alleged use of the mails to defraud in connection with Metal & Mining Shares, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) enabled Promoter Bob to attend...
...Walter Bagehot. These famous essays, it may be noted, first appeared in 1867; and most of the contrasts which the author made were to things American. In the essay entitled "Its Supposed Checks and Balances" I find the following words: "The Americans now extol their institutions, and so defraud themselves of their due praise. But if they had not a genius for politics; if they had not a moderation in action singularly curious where superficial speech is so violent; if they had not a regard for law, such as no great people have yet evinced, and infinitely surpassing ours...
...week they had been locked in the jury room, deliberating over a ton of evidence containing 1,500,000 words & figures. From the evidence and previous testimony they reached the conclusion that Wilbur Burton Foshay, onetime Northwest utility tycoon, and six associates were guilty of using the mails to defraud. Not of this opinion was No. 12, one Mrs. Genevieve Clark, who stoutly held out for acquittal. After a week of argument, some 200 ballots, the jurors told Judge Joseph W. Molyneaux an agreement was impossible. He asked them to deliberate one more day, then gave up, ordered...
...Mere failure to file an income tax does not constitute 'attempt' to evade or defeat the tax. ... To convict you must find beyond reasonable doubt that there was intent to defraud and also some act done in furtherance of that intent...
Awaiting trials for using the mails to defraud and for criminal conduct of his companies, Mr. Bob has been busy again. Three weeks ago he brought bankruptcy suits against several of his pyramided companies, saying they were paying other creditors in preference to him. Fortnight ago he brought suit for $25,000,000 against Mr. Heckscher, Mr. Heckscher's son G. Maurice and 16 other men, charging they had run his companies illegally during his "absence." Last week silent Mr. Heckscher was no longer silent, brought a $250,000 suit against Promoter Bob on grounds of fraudulent representations made...