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Packed in a large metal container and invoiced as metaux ouvres (worked metal), the coin shipment was met at Paris' Gare de Bercy by Jean Trottin, 51, a driver for a truck-rental agency. He loaded the container onto a flatbed tractor-trailer truck for delivery to a Bank of France side entrance. Shortly after leaving the station, Trottin found himself cut off by a disabled truck and got out to give a hand. Minutes later the two were surrounded by four pistol-carrying men and ordered into a nearby Peugeot sedan. One gunman took the wheel of Trottin...
...Mack. Their alleged offense is defrauding the Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" through sharing* (TIME, Sept. 13) in a $441,000 lubricant by which $7,000,000 was within 72 hours transferred from the Alien Property Custodian's custody to the Societe Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux, This $7,000,000 constituted the German-owned stock (49%) of the American Metal Co. which was held, after seizure, by Alien Property Custodian A. Mitchell Palmer as "trustee." The stock was seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act passed in 1917, which provided that the President should appoint...
...board of the Metallbank and president of the Metallgesellschaft, two German Corporations, both allegedly† (TIME, Sept. 13) the original stockholders of the original 49% of seized American Metal Co. stock. He was in addition a stockholder of the Société Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux. Hence the Government alleges that the Societe Suisse at the time of the claim was but a holding company for the Merton family interests, that that family retained majority control in it, and that through its recovery of the Merton equity in the U.S.-located American Metal Co. the seized 49% found...
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