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...contended that an excess profit tax of some $6,592 was unfair, sued for its return on the grounds that royalties of more than $100,000 (received in a single year) were from records made in 1917 (TIME, Jan. 16, 1928). The other favored Mrs. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, widow of the late great tenor, a brother, Giovanni Caruso, Rudolfo and Enrico Jr., natural sons, as against Gloria, 10-year-old legitimate daughter. New Jersey's Chancellor Edwin R. Walker had awarded Gloria two-thirds of her father's royalties which amount even now to some...
...delegation at his official country place, Chequers Court, rushing them on a sightseeing tour round Buckinghamshire. Delegates and prime minister visited Milton's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles; the graves of William Penn and Edmund ("on conciliation with America") Burke; Hughenden. country home of the great Jew Benjamin Disraeli. Said U. S. Secretary of State Stimson: "One of the most interesting days of my life. ... To me all this is sacred ground...
Comrade Sadathieraschvili claimed to know all about the notorious European counterfeit issue of more than $100,000 worth of U. S. $100 Federal Reserve notes, dated 1914 and picturing Benjamin Franklin (TIME, Feb. 3). (Polish banks last week became so alarmed that they refused to accept any U. S. banknotes' in denominations of $100 or larger.) With a wealth of circumstantial detail M. Sadathieraschvili of Georgia accused another Georgian, the Dictator of Soviet Russia, commonly called Josef Stalin, but named by his parents Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili...
Levon West, born in South Dakota 30 years ago, is a descendant of Benjamin West, Colonial and British painter. He likes to wander amid the lonely buttes and lakes of the Northwest, hunting and sketching, when he is not doing Houdini tricks with cards or taking rabbits out of the pockets of his friends. He watched the aviators on Long Island preparing for the flight to Paris in the spring of 1927. He came to know Charles Augustus Lind bergh, and etched his portrait directly on copper plate from memory, aided by a photograph, the day Lindbergh landed in Paris...
Exhibit A is a series of perfect simulations of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank $100 note of 1914, bearing the portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Last November the old and reputable Berlin banking firm of Sass & Martini, established in 1842, sent over a packet containing $6,000 of these bills in the course of ordinary business with the Deutsche Bank. That impeccable institution passed them on to the National City Bank of New York. Since the Federal Reserve some time ago decided to withdraw the 1914 series of $100 notes from circulation, the National City passed...