Word: woodnutt
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Then, one day last week, they awoke to the hard reality of deciding on the conspiracy or innocence of onetime (1921-24) U. S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, who were charged with fraudulently allowing the transfer of $7,000,000 in stock in the American Metal Co. back to the original German owners. The defense lawyers had summed up their cases. Colonel William Rand, attorney for Colonel Miller, did it curtly. Max D. Steuer, in behalf of Mr. Daugherty, did it emotionally.* Prosecutor Emory Buckner in his final address...
...Steuer and Colonel William S. Rand, attorneys for Defendants Daugherty and one-time (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, then began the defense. Throughout the trial defense attorneys have repeatedly urged dismissal of the case on the ground that the line of evidence offered in no way implicated the defendants. Now further defense was offered that since the $7,000,000 transfer-transaction had been consummated by assistants with but slight knowledge on the part of the defendants, therefore Mr. Miller and Mr. Daugherty could not be said to have "conspired" to put these claims through...
...Government traced C00043203, a $10,000 Liberty bond, to the 1922 private brokerage account of onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller. It was further shown that this bond was one of a $441,000 block which Richard Merton, German metals potentate, had said he paid to the late John T. King in 1921 for speeding through his claim to seven million dollars' worth of War-seized stock of the American Metal Co. Through witnesses, bonds, and documents Prosecutor Emory R. Buckner has succeeded in tracing a total of $49,000 to Colonel Miller...
Last week in Federal Judge Julian W. Mack's Manhattan courtroom, continued the criminal trial of two members of the Harding Administration, onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller (TIME, Sept. 13, 20). They are charged with defrauding the U. S. Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" accepting part of a $441,000 melon as a reward for their speedy transfer of $7,000,000 worth of the American Metal Co.'s stock from the care of the Alien Property Custodian back to the original German...
History. Onetime (Harding Cabinet) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (Harding Cabinet) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller are under indictment and undergoing trial in Manhattan before Federal Judge Julian W. Mack. Their alleged offense is defrauding the Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" through sharing* (TIME, Sept. 13) in a $441,000 lubricant by which $7,000,000 was within 72 hours transferred from the Alien Property Custodian's custody to the Societe Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux, This $7,000,000 constituted the German-owned stock (49%) of the American Metal Co. which was held...