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...musician who rewrote Wagner's overture to Tannhauser, and omits only the banker who put up the money. Because cinemaddicts pay little attention to this list except to deplore it, they entertain vague notions, that moving pictures are either: 1) made haphazard by a collection of overpaid addleheads who speak only a few words of English; or 2) the result of a mass inspiration upon the most miraculously gifted group of creative artists ever simultaneously assembled on the globe. Twenty-five years ago, movies were indeed manufactured helter-skelter by almost anyone who had $5,000 and an urge...
...additional taxes and penalties. Among the important issues that this brought up was the many million dollars worth of pictures which he had given to his Andrew W. Mellon Educational & Charitable Trust, and which the Treasury did not consider bona fide. Mr. Mellon retorted that he had overpaid the Treasury some $139,000 and charged political persecution. A Pittsburgh grand jury refused to indict him. During the three years the case dragged along before the 15-man Board of Tax Appeals, eight changes in membership occurred and 10,350 pages of testimony were presented. Mr. Mellon, who spent five days...
...years ago, while Andrew William Mellon was seeking a rebate on overpaid back income taxes after the Treasury had dunned him for underpaid back taxes, his lawyers sought to underscore Mr. Mellon's patriotism by announcing that some day the Republic would fall heir to his $19,000,000 art treasures. Last week that day semi-ofncially arrived...
Left. By the late Mrs. Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, divorced in 1927 from Manhattan Capitalist William Kissam Vanderbilt: an estate of $6,765,972; in Mineola, N. Y. It was found that she owed her onetime husband $14,945 in overpaid alimony...
...accused him of personal animus in going after more taxes. To "General" Cummings' embarrassment, a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh refused to indict its fellow-townsman for any criminality on his tax returns. Mr. Mellon promptly countercharged that, by failing to report all his philanthropies, he had actually overpaid his 1931 income tax by $139,045. The Bureau of Internal Revenue revived its original charge, slapped on a 50% indemnity for fraud. Last week three members of the Board of Tax Appeals went to Pittsburgh to hear Mr. MelIon's appeal and petition for refund...