Word: metallbank
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Strictly speaking, the crime alleged in this indictment was a post-War affair but it grew out of War measures. Stock of the American Metals Co., property of the Metallgesellschaft and the Metallbank of Frankfort-am-Main, was seized as alien property by the Government soon after the U. S. entered the War. Some $7,000,000 was derived from the sale of these shares. In 1921, this amount in cash and Liberty bonds was turned over to the Société Suisse pour Valeurs de Meteaux, of Basle...
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