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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invisible axis. Scene was the U. S. District Court, Judge Philip L. Sullivan presiding. Cast consisted principally of 41 defendants on trial for using the mails to swindle an estimated $1,350,000 from some 70,000 Midwesterners. The fantastic fraud on view was based on the assumption that Sir Francis Drake had left a huge and as yet undivided fortune. Some 27 billion dollars would be split as soon as costly litigation was concluded. Benefactors were divided into two groups: those who had the name of Drake somewhere in their family tree and those who were merely putting...
...Sir Francis Drake estate. . . . His property has continued in unbroken succession in the possession of his legitimate heirs."* From London, Counselor of Embassy Ray Atherton reported that letters from Drake dupes were one of his office's greatest cares. "We have," he said, "prepared mimeographed letters to answer them." Immediate result of this double warning: 100 letters to the Postoffice Department denouncing the "persecution" of Drake Estate agents...
...time the racket was taking $6,000 per month out of Iowa alone. There were said to have been 2,000 victims in Quincy, Ill. Missouri, according to one faction of this huge gullery, was the home of Sir Francis' "rightful heir." Delay in the inheritance's division was explained by the promoters in many ways. One story was that a British "ecclesiastical court"-sometimes a "secret court"-was holding things up, waiting for the King to put the "golden seal" on the right papers. Two decades ago, Woodrow Wilson was reported to have been driven insane...
Miss Holmes has done commendable work as the tercentenary historian of the school which dandled Harvard College on its knee. There are some omissions, however, which call for notice here. One fails to see any mention of Sir Thomas Downing, for whom Downing-street is named; tradition, at any rate, has always associated his name with the Latin School. It is a curious fact, which one may offer for what it is worth, that although the Latin School has graduated many men more distinguished than most presidents, it has never produced a President of the United States...
...long did it take Sir Cyril to unburden himself on Chrysler ethics that final awards were not announced until next day. Chrysler Corp. and the five defendant executives, including Mr. Chrysler and Mr. Hutchinson, were ordered to pay the plaintiffs a total of $270,000, plus costs of perhaps another...