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Last March, with a premature blare of headlines, Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings announced that he was 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...
...late election returns he had no chance of a fifth successive term at Annapolis.* Victor by 5,000 votes was Republican Harry W. Nice, who capitalized on Governor Ritchie's unpopularity on the Eastern Shore following his anti-lynching stand last autumn (TIME; Oct. 30, 1933, et seq...
Ever since the tin-cup campaigns reorganization at the Metropolitan has seemed inevitable. Gatti's resignation, long rumored (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932, et seq.), merely focused in the headlines the necessity for change. When the directors choose to elect Gatti's successor, Chairman Cravath and his associates have a long list of applicants to consider...
...returned alive within a week after his father paid $12,000 ransom. Last February Federal agents put Gangster Verne Sankey into a South Dakota prison where he killed himself after confessing to kidnapping not only young Bohn but Charles Boettcher II, Denver broker (TIME, Feb. 20, 1933 et seq...
...politicos are more deft than wary old President Arturo Alessandri, "The Lion" who emerged triumphant from that spate of revolutions which gave Chile six Presidents in 18 months (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932 et seq...