Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make out a prima jade case that Mr. Mellon's services violated a statute of 1789 which provided: No person appointed to the office of Secretary of the Treasury shall directly or indirectly be concerned or interested in carrying on the business of trade or commerce or be owner in whole or in part of any sea vessel...
...heavy stockholder in Aluminum Co. of America; for it he had negotiated a business deal in 1925 with the late James B. Duke; ergo he is in trade. Gulf Oil Corp. owns seagoing tankers; Mr. Mellon is a large stockholder in Gulf Oil; et go he is an owner of sea vessels. Under him the Treasury has issued a publication called The Federal Architect which recommends the use of more aluminum in the current public buildings program, thus drumming up trade for Aluminum Co. He has caused "millions" of dollars in taxes to be refunded to Aluminum Co. and Gulf...
...leadership of Harry Collins Brown, longtime editor of Valentine's Manual, with the enthusiastic support of Banker James Speyer, Supreme Court Justice Phoenix Ingraham. For several years it occupied the old wooden Gracie Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper Ship Owner Archibald Gracie. A modern fireproof building was imperative. The city donated land, a building fund was raised, an architectural competition was held. The competition was won by dapper little Joseph Henry Freedlander, an architect high in Tammany favor, who designed the bronze Fifth Avenue traffic towers removed two and a half...
...winning of this competition is rated as one of the highest honors which can be achieved by a law student at Harvard. The case presented dealt with a newspaper editor who was suing the owner of the paper for the casts of defense in a newspaper libel charge...
...with the law of agency and equity. The Scott Club will present the arguments for the plaintiff while the Lowell Club speakers will talk from the defendants' brief. The case involves a newspaper editor who was sued for libel, won the trial, and proceeded to demand recompensation from its owner for the costs of defending the newspaper...