Endless testimony, intricate detail, points of law, and points of fact, characterized the progress of the Government's suit to recover 4,800 German chemical patents, seized and sold to the Chemical Foundation of Wilmington. Over two weeks have been spent by the Government in striving to prove that the transaction was " fraudulent "; because the price was "altogether inadequate" ($250,000), because President Wilson was " not properly informed" in sanctioning the sale, and because Francis P. Garvan, then Alien Property Custodian, sold patents to the Foundation of which he became President.
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