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Government shakeup at New York customs house over sugar tax frauds
The article reports a wide government probe into sugar duty frauds at the New York customs house led by Henry L. Stimson, with several high officials dismissed. It details Parr’s investigations at the Williamsburg pier, the sugar weighing devices used to cheat duties, and mentions Lyman J. Gage and Justice Horace H. Lurton in related federal affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NHB
Sam
New York Customs House
Lyman’ J. Gage
Atlantic
Pacife
Customs
Henry L. Stimson
United States
New York
Sime Trust
Ar. Stimson
Elihu Root
Stimson
Yale
Harvard Law School
Stnot & Clark
Howard, Winthrop & Stimson
Richard Parr
Albany
Loeb
Parr
Eivil Service
Customs Service
Treasury
Williamsburg Pier
Trust
Uncle Sam
Williamsburg
Custom House
Lyman Jage
Trenaury Department
Wilbur F. Wakeman
Port of New York
Gage
Henry C. Haremeyer
Kentucky
University of Chicago
Thirty-ffth
Tennessee
Law Department of
Cumberland
Ernity
Lebanon
Tenn
Wag
Earl Yebruary
Duce
Clarksville
Gustava Oa. Henry
Peter Turney
Cleveland Circuit
Sixth
United States Circuit
Howell E. Jackson
United States Supreme Bench
Lavien
Supreme Court
Harlan and
Day