Word: blech
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...lived away from her native Sydney-in England, France and the U.S. The solid financial background that gives The House of All Nations its authority was gained during the late '20s when Stead worked in a Paris bank. She was also married to a banker, William Blech, who wrote novels himself under the pseudonym of "William Blake." He died in 1968 and a few years later Stead returned to Australia. She now lives with her brother, a labor union official, in an extension to a small brick house in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville...
...back taxes as assessed by the Internal Revenue Ser vice, his tax problems are not over. At the specific request of the IRS, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski will apparently ask a federal grand jury to decide whether Nixon's tax advisers, Attorney Frank DeMarco and Accountant Arthur Blech, should be charged with fraud. DeMarco, at least, is not likely to accept the full blame under any such accusation. At the same time, IRS Commissioner Donald Alexander, by will ingly declaring that Nixon had not been accused of fraud himself but then issuing a series of "no comments" to questions...
Frank DeMarco and Accountant Arthur Blech, both of Los Angeles. Last week, Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski directed his staff to investigate whether the two men had violated any laws. The White House statement disavowing any presidential responsibility for errors in the returns in effect pinned the blame for them on DeMarco and Blech. Further, presidential aides sought to give the impression that the two men had worked independently of Nixon and that he had merely glanced over his returns before signing them...
...investment company that had been set up by his close friends, Robert Abplanalp and Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo. Some presidential advisers thought that there had been a capital gain, as Coopers & Lybrand also later found. But Nixon followed the advice of his tax accountant, Arthur Blech, who made some arbitrary valuations of the remaining property and concluded that Nixon had sold the land for as much as he paid for it?thus no profit. The committee staff, however, determined that the land was worth $1,031,164 at the time of the sale, giving Nixon a profit...