Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Attorney General Cummings announced last year that he was going to bring criminal action against Mr. Mellon for fraud in his 1931 income tax return, the old Pittsburgh financier cried "Politics of the crudest sort!" Because Homer Cummings' law firm had handled many a damage suit against the Mellon-controlled Aluminum Co. of America, Mr. Mellon openly accused him of personal animus in going after more taxes. To "General" Cummings' embarrassment, a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh refused to indict its fellow-townsman for any criminality on his tax returns. Mr. Mellon promptly countercharged that, by failing...
...POPULAR PRACTICE OF FRAUD- T. Swann Harding-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Examination of fraud in U. S. food, drugs, cosmetics, real estate...
...short years had passed since Charles Edwin Mitchell had been driven from his tall temple by Ferdinand Pecora, whose persistent questioning before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee had forced from the banker's own lips the admissions that had damned him. Promptly indicted for Federal income tax fraud, Mr. Mitchell had fought through a harrowing six-week trial which lost him 24 Ib. in weight but won him an acquittal (TIME, July 3, 1933). In a later income tax action his counsel had declared that his client was "millions...
Flemington has been on the newspaper map ever since the kidnapping occurred. It was a base of police operations and, after the baby's corpse was found, the place where pettifogging Boat-Builder John H. Curtis of Norfolk was tried for fraud after he led Col. Lindbergh on a wild goose chase for his son. But even the citizens of Flemington were not prepared for the sort of life & death contest which was about to be staged in their town. The 100-year-old courthouse seats only 250 people in all. More than 400 reporters and special correspondents have...
Charged with "wilful negligence" were the vessel's Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott. Charged with "fraud, neglect and connivance in violation of law" was Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud of New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.. which chartered the Morro Castle from its parent company, Atlantic. Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwi). Likewise indicted was the company itself, known to the trade as the Ward Line. Released on $2,500 bail each, the individual defendants face a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment, $10,000 fine...