Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guilty of tax crookery (TIME, March 19, et seq.). It was alleged that Mr. Mellon had cheated the Government out of $716,000 worth of income taxes in 1931 by fake stock transfers and bogus losses. Two months later the case was brought before a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh. The jury refused to indict its rich fellow-citizen...
...personal feud between Homer Cummings and Andrew Mellon is of long standing. On behalf of various clients, the Stamford, Conn. law firm of Cummings & Lockwood has, since 1925, pressed one damage suit after another against Aluminum Co. of America. No sooner had the Pittsburgh jury dismissed the case against him than Mr. Mellon turned around and filed a petition with the Board of Tax Appeals for $130,045 which he claimed he had overpaid on his 1931 tax return. In September the Board published its reply, in which was discerned the fine Connecticut hand of Homer Cummings. It revived...
Last week Mr. Mellon formally replied to the Board. He did not mince words either. Specifically the Board had charged that in 1931 Mr. Mellon had "sold" big blocks of his securities to Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co., on whose board sat Mr. Mellon's late brother Richard and his nephews William and Richard. In effect, Mr. Mellon was accused of selling stock to himself to establish a tax loss. This Mr. Mellon bitterly denied, calling the latest complaint "impertinent, scandalous and improper...
...five authoritative marches to the Maroon goalline, sportswriters began talking of Minnesota not as the greatest team of 1934, but as one of the greatest of all time. To many an oldster it rated with Coach "Hurry Up" Yost's "point-a-minute" Michigan teams of 1901-04, Pittsburgh's invincible 1916 combination and Notre Dame in the days of the "Four Horsemen...
Home at Annapolis on the banks of the Severn, Navy was toppled from the ranks of the unbeaten when Pittsburgh torpedoed the Midshipmen with five touchdowns. A pass, Borries-to-King, saved Navy from being whitewashed. Final score...