Word: mais
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...list: children of the French and Belgian Ambassadors; the daughters of the Governor of Porto Rico, of the Governor General of the Philippines and of the Secretary of Agriculture; the son of the Secretary of the Navy. Manhattan. Surrounded by liveried negroes, Mr. & Mrs. William Robertson Coe introduced Natalie Mai Coe to society in a setting designed to remind guests that one branch of the family had pre-Civil War Charleston, S. C., connections. The Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton was decked out to represent a southern garden, with a Colonial portico at one end. Additional southern atmosphere...
...Last week the Washington Court House, Ohio, sheriff arrested Mr. Daugherty's brother, Mai S. Daugherty and held him for $40,000 bail, in connection with the failure early this year of two local banks, one of them the supposed repository of some of the Ohio Gang's graft...
Bank examiners last week knew they would find none of the records the Senate had sought because Mai Daugherty subsequently had testified that he had burned all the ledgers in question...
Closed by the State of Ohio last week at Washington Courthouse was Mal S. Daugherty's bank into which the Senate had failed to pry during its investigation of his brother, Harry Micajah Daugherty, as Attorney General. Heavy withdrawals from the Ohio State Bank, merged by Mai Daugherty with his Midland National Bank and Commercial Bank, caused State bank examiners to suspend its business while they checked accounts...
...years ago the Senate committee investigating the Department of Justice suspected that alleged graft by the "Ohio Gang" had-been deposited in the Midland National. When Senators Wheeler and Brookhart went to Washington Courthouse to inspect its records, Mai Daugherty defiantly refused them access to his bank. He was cited for contempt of the Senate. The Supreme Court upheld the citation long after the Daugherty issue had passed into history. Hence the case against him was dropped...