Word: miller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Federal Judge Julian W. Mack's Manhattan courtroom, continued the criminal trial of two 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...
...trial entered its third week, it tended to emerge from the so-called international (German-Swiss) stage and settle down to the important business of finding out what cash, checks or bribes (if any) were paid to Messrs. Daugherty and Miller for allowing the American Metal Co. stock to be transferred. Herein lies their "conspiracy" or their innocence...
...thank you for your kind criticisms of my first play, "Just Life," at Henry Miller's Theatre...
Mechanically-minded son of an Indiana miller, he none the less, to gain livelihood, had learned the printing craft. As a printer he worked among the Dakota Black Hills, at Minneapolis, at Chicago. There he founded the periodical Dairy Produce, fought against spurious oleomargarine. (In 1902 Congress passed the bill he demanded, the oleomargarine be not colored artificially.) He wrote a textbook, The Dairyman's Manual...
Nevertheless, the races went on (TIME, Sept. 13). New York National Guardsmen, led by chunky, grinning Lieut. Carl W. Rach of Miller Field, won the National Guard Trophy race. There being no amateur code about flying, Flyer Rach gladly accepted $500 prize money...