Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medalie uses the story of the Morgan loans for a quite different purpose. If, says he, if the husband-to-wife sale had been a real sale, Mr. Mitchell would have notified J. P. Morgan & Co. of the changed ownership of the collateral for his loan. Mr. Mitchell did not so notify the House of Morgan...
...this, there is a good point for the defense. The dubious sale was made by just such a "Dear Elizabeth-Dear Charles'' exchange of letters. It was the Mitchells' way of doing business, the way they had always done it, and it had always been perfectly legal...
George Whitney, a partner of Morgan & Co., testified that the stock was sold to the selected customers at 32 and later sold at 40 7-8 when offered for public sale. It closed last night...
...short black coat, grey striped trousers, handkerchief in breast pocket, his granite jaw set, his fierce eyes peering intently from beneath his big brow crowned with a stiff brush of upstanding grey hair, was on trial for alleged evasion of income taxes: 1) in 1929 by making a fictitious sale of 18,300 shares of National City stock to his wife to establish a loss of $2,872,000, thereby avoiding a tax of $728,000; 2) in 1930 by making a fictitious sale to William D. Thornton, president of Greene...
...McFadden, Congressman from Pennsylvania, charged in the House that Mr. Mellon in 1931 had sold 60,000 shares of Western Public Service, and 123,000 shares of Pittsburgh Coal to establish losses of $6,700,000, had through a Mellon-owned corporation repurchased them 31 days after the sale. Said Attorney General Cummings: "The charges are serious and the investigation will be serious and thorough." The Mitchell trial may make business history but a Mellon trial would make political history as well...