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...Government contended that: 1) Mr. Mellon had failed to report about $5,000,000 of his 1931 income; 2) he had cut his reported income of nearly $11,000,000 down to a taxable $2,000,000 chiefly through bogus losses achieved by fake stock transfers. Prime instance, of which the facts but not the intent were verified last week by Mr. Mellon's longtime confidential secretary, Howard M. Johnson...
...people who like to see an involved, if improbable, tale cleverly unraveled, Piper Paid should have genuine appeal. A near-suicide, two bogus psychiatric tricks and a great deal of hysterical acting by Edith Barrett wind up an anecdote whose moral seems to be that no matter how much devilment a woman may cause, if she suffers loudly enough she may be judged to have made recompense...
...Geographical Exploration. The story, written by Marcel Achard, is concerned with murder in a film studio. The victim is the jeune premiere, Liane, poisoned in a hasty drink before her theme song shot. Suspicion moves around the very mixed company, centering upon different members; there are false clues and bogus confessions in the best manner; and the murderer is finally revealed when the death film is reproduced...
...going to prove that Mr. Mellon, while Secretary of the Treasury, had been guilty of tax crookery (TIME, March 19, et seq.). It was alleged that Mr. Mellon had cheated the Government out of $716,000 worth of income taxes in 1931 by fake stock transfers and bogus losses. Two months later the case was brought before a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh. The jury refused to indict its rich fellow-citizen...
...partly Toni's resentment of this proposed bargain and partly Penelope's charm that make him decide, on meeting his daughter, to keep her himself. He even decides to lead a new life, and Toni believes him although she knows he has financed his intentions by selling a bogus gold mine to Sir Guy Standing. At this point, with Sir Guy turning out to be twice as bogus as the mine, Jerry is forced by circumstances of his own making to remain what he has always been?a crook...