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...Department of the Treasury, under Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, announced that the fiscal year of 1926-27 showed a federal surplus of some $635,000,000 (TIME, July 11), those high in the ranks of the Democratic and Republican parties have quarreled over the manner in which the melon should be cut. All agree that the record surplus will result in tax reduction, but differences arise over the amount of the tax cut and over the glory of presenting it to the U. S. nation. Considering the fact that a Republican Administration governs the country, it might appear that...
...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...
Last week the U. S. Steel Corporation cut a melon. J. Pierpont Morgan, George F. Baker, President James A. Farrell and the other directors sat in a small expensive group around a committee table on the 17th floor of No. 71 Broadway, while Judge Elbert Henry Gary read his announcement...
...members of the Harding Administration, onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller (TIME, Sept. 13, 20). They are charged with defrauding the U. S. Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" accepting part of a $441,000 melon as a reward for their speedy transfer of $7,000,000 worth of the American Metal Co.'s stock from the care of the Alien Property Custodian back to the original German owners via the Societe Suisse...
...Steel declared regular $1.75 quarterly dividend, divided no melon, announced $92,875,390 mid-year earnings...