History. Onetime (Harding Cabinet) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (Harding Cabinet) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller are under indictment and undergoing trial in Manhattan before Federal Judge Julian W. Mack. Their alleged offense is defrauding the Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" through sharing* (TIME, Sept. 13) in a $441,000 lubricant by which $7,000,000 was within 72 hours transferred from the Alien Property Custodian's custody to the Societe Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux, This $7,000,000 constituted the German-owned stock (49%) of the American Metal Co. which was...
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