Word: harriman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
While U. S. Attorney George Zerdin Medalie, a Republican who last year ran for the Senate, presented the Federal Grand Jury with evidence of Bankster Harriman's misdeeds, a depositors' committee revealed that the Treasury and Justice Departments in Washington had known of the bank's condition for months but had failed to act. Facts for prosecution were laid before Attorney Medalie Dec. 24. To clear his own skirts, he blurted...
While the recent inquisitors by the Senators and their aides have been remarkably successful in clearly exposing the dirty linen of the financiers, the pending case will offer much more difficulty. Morgan is a power far greater than any the Committee has yet tackled. Harriman and Mitchell are amateurs beside him. Nor will he be hampered in defending himself as the others were by the failure of his banks. He is prepared to defend himself. Still another consideration takes away some of the exhilaration that this attack on the "money-changers" would ordinarily cause. It seems only too probable that...
...head office of Harriman National (at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 44th St.) looks across to the northeast corner at a large empty office which once housed the notorious Bank of United States.* Ill omen for Joe Harriman was the news last week that the conviction of Bernard K. Marcus, president, and Saul Singer, vice president, of the Bank of U. S. was affirmed by the New York Court of Appeals. Banksters Marcus & Singer were notified to get ready to serve their three-to-six-year terms in Sing Sing (the conviction of Herbert Singer, young...
...Just before the banking holiday the stockholders' protective committee of the Bank of U. S. asked shareholders to contribute $1.50 per stock unit and make checks payable to the Harriman National...