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...BIR commissioner (1944-47), Nunan found need for his own cronies in top jobs. For Brooklyn collector he chose Joseph P. Marcelle, a Brooklyn ward boss. For director of New York's alcohol tax unit: James B. E. Olson, his former deputy...
...switch brought quick reaction in Washington. Delaware's BIR-investigating Senator John James Williams promptly called it "utterly indefensible," and inquired whether this was part of a plan to use the civil service as "a haven of refuge for repudiated politicians."* Members of the House subcommittee investigating the BIR have charged that Dunlap "dishonored" a subpoena calling upon him to produce records that the subcommittee needed. He said he wouldn't have time to see the subcommittee until December, and denied that he had received a subpoena...
Neither theater has suffered official admonition from the Bureau of Internal Revenue, but both have heard rumblings. One BIR official merely announced: "[Gillespie] can go ahead as long as he operates within the law." Meanwhile, Honor Night may become the biggest box-office boon since dishes and Bingo...
Concerning your Oct. 13 cover, showing a bird perched atop the Washington Monument: Is it a U.S. eagle or a BIR vulture? It looks like you let "Form 1040" influence your ornithology...
...Charles Oliphant, chief counsel of the BIR, resigned suddenly after a tax-troubled Chicagoan testified that Oliphant's name had been used by a racketeer in an attempted shakedown. Oliphant had admitted accepting gifts and expensive entertainment from big taxpayers with cases pending before the BIR. A close friend of Oliphant was Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, who refuses to testify before congressional committees...