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Acquitted, last spring, of contempt, Col. Stewart went on trial for perjury last month. Last week, again, he was acquitted, or at least "aquibbled." Conducted by "million-dollar" counsel (small, snappy, whitehaired Lawyer Frank J. Hogan), the Stewart defense succeeded in shifting the crux of the case from the honesty of Col. Stewart's double interpretation of the verb, "to receive," to the legality of the Senators' second questioning of Col. Stewart. Chairman of the Public Lands Committee at the time of the second Stewart hearing was boyish, officious, inexperienced Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota...
...Ryan went to work as an errand-boy for $3 a week; with William Collins Whitney he was a broker in Wall Street; with King Leopold II of Belgium he developed the diamond fields of the Congo Free State; and with a fortune estimated between one and five hundred million dollars, last week, he died...
...calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before the official report of Southern defeat. The only reason that Fisk and his capitalists did not make their everlasting fortunes was that one of them had secretly, timidly, limited the sale to five million...
...Spring of 1902 the necessary subscriptions to insure the $5,000,000 required to purchase the land and erect the buildings of the School had been secured J. P. Morgan '89 gave over a million dollars for the erection of three of the five buildings as a memorial to his father once a merchant of Boston; John D. Rockefeller gave a million dollars which forms part of the Permanent endowment; Mrs. Collis P. Huntington of New York and David Sears of Boston each gave a memorial building for laboratory uses...
Millionaires. A person who has only a million dollars in cash or property is not a genuine millionaire. In the U. S. a genuine millionaire must have an annual income of at least $1,000,000; this means the possession of $20,000,000 (figuring on the basis of a 5% yield). There were 283 U. S. millionaires in 1927, according to the Internal Revenue Bureau, last week...