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...scandals of the Harding Administration was in the Office of Alien Property. For accepting a $50,000 kickback on a World War I claim, OAP Custodian Thomas W. (for Woodnutt) Miller was sent to prison. OAP gradually went out of business, was revived in 1942 as a Justice Department division under Democratic Politico Leo Crowley. Since then it has controlled as much as $500 million worth of alien properties seized in World War II, still manages 39 active companies and assets of nearly $300 million...
...brave man who would touch the job in this war with a ten-foot pole. Between 1917 and 1934 (when the office was incorporated into the Justice Department) there were six custodians. Three were accused in the courts and in Congress of shocking dishonesties; one (Thomas Woodnutt Miller, President Harding's friend) went to jail...
Other members included Thomas Woodnutt Miller, onetime Alien Property Custodian, convicted for fraud in the American Metals case; Col. Thomas B. Felder, deceased; Charles Forbes, convicted of fraud as Director of the Veterans Bureau. Socially its meeting places were a green house on K Street, near the Department of Justice, and a house on H Street, next to the old Shoreham Hotel which backed on the city home of Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post, a big-hearted Harding friend...
...Cabinet of Calvin Coolidge, served one day and a fraction in the Cabinet of Herbert Hoover?until William DeWitt Mitchell was confirmed and sworn in. It was under Herbert Hoover that Mr. Sargent performed his last official act. That act was the signing of a parole releasing Col. Thomas Woodnutt Miller, onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian, from Atlanta Penitentiary...
...Mayor Gaynor in 1912-13. More lately (1925-27), as U. S. Attorney, he was chief padlocker of the biggest and wettest of U. S. cities, and prosecutor in the famed Earl Carroll bath-tub case and in the alien property conspiracy case against Harry Micajah Daugherty and Thomas Woodnutt Miller...