Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosecute them obliquely under the Federal Income Tax law as in the case of Manhattan's Charles Edwin Mitchell.* Another is to catch them directly for violation of the national banking act. Such was the method which last week continued to make news in the case of Joseph Wright Harriman, arrested on his Manhattan sick bed fortnight ago on the charge of a $1,661,170 falsification of the deposit records of his Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. (TIME, March...
Baillie-Stewart's mother, a Mrs. Elsie Beatrice Wright (the defendant changed his name from Wright to Baillie-Stewart in 1929) testified that she knew about the trips to Berlin but was not told about Marie Louise. "It was not natural that he would," said...
Quiet enough to permit passengers to talk to one another in normal voices and to allow radio music to be heard, the new Condor will be put into service by Eastern Air Transport out of Newark to Miami this week. Eight others are under construction at Curtiss-Wright's St. Louis plant...
...fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
...Fifth Avenue. The Harriman Estate retired from the bank and Joe became the Harriman of Harriman National. Last July, as fitted his age, he was elected chairman of the bank where he presided over such well-advertised directors as Julius Lichtenstein (Consolidated Cigar). Amos Sulka (shirts), Boykin Cabell Wright (Cotton Franklin, Wright & Gordon...