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...Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue was not always a hotbed of scandal. From 1933 to 1943, it was run by Guy Helvering, a man of spotless reputation who prided himself on being rude to politicians who asked the BIR for favors...
...facts assure Snyder a place in history, but he keeps worrying about how it will all look to history-and to contemporaries. Last week Snyder's treasury issued a glowing, 29-page blurb entitled Report to Taxpayers. Subject: the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Salient point: Snyder admitted 174 BIR "separations" during fiscal 1952 (including 53 for taking bribes, 24 for embezzlement). Otherwise, he said, everything was fine & dandy...
...collections hierarchy until he retired last November because of "poor health," was indicted by a Brooklyn federal grand jury. The charge: criminal evasion of income taxes. Bolich (rhymes with toe kick) was under fire last April from the House subcommittee investigating irregularities in the BIR (TIME, April 14). ¶Fred H. Altmeyer, 39, suspended deputy collector of internal revenue in Pittsburgh, was indicted by a federal grand jury for extorting and embezzling $4,142 from two taxpayers...
...Washington these days. Klein testified that in 2½ years he parlayed a $1,000 investment into a $5,000,000 profit, through a brisk import business in Canadian whisky. His troubles began in 1946 when the Government charged him with black-markeeering and tax fraud. In 1948, the BIR, afraid that he would skip the country, slapped a $7,000,000 tax lien on his assets...
Other passages from the log indicated that Bridges discussed the Klein case with BIR officials at least five times. One passage was a warning from Grunewald to Oliphant that Bridges was "a little peeved" about one aspect of the Government's treatment of Klein, but on the whole was happy about the way BIR had handled the case. The evidence seemed to require a much fuller explanation from Bridges, but the committee apparently was unwilling to cross-examine a colleague from the upper chamber. After two hours, in which Bridges' recollection proved very vague, he stepped down from...