Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expert. BIR Chief Counsel Charles Oliphant resigned angrily after Witness Abraham Teitelbaum said he had been told Oliphant was a member of a tax shakedown gang. Former New York Alcohol Tax Unit Supervisor James B. E. Olson popped up on the payroll of tax-troubled companies. Massachusetts Collector Denis Delaney was convicted of bribery, served nine months. St. Louis Collector James Finnegan* had a nice way of obtaining legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government, later went to jail for 18 months. Former Assistant BIR Commissioner Daniel Bolich was convicted of conspiracy to fix a tax case. Ernest...
...village of Boscotrecase near Naples, people who had been used to the knock of Tax Collector Eugenic Francescone on their doors began about a year ago to grow accustomed to the knock of his son. Young Vittorio begged clothes to distribute among the village poor; he even persuaded the five beggars who had enjoyed Boscotrecase's old-clothes monopoly to give up part of their haul. Rumors spread about the goodness of young Vittorio-that at school he gave away his lunch to poorer boys, that he supported 13 families with his charity. He denied the rumors, but people...
...kind of traveling art show that does the U.S. a lot of good abroad was a smash hit last week in Mexico City. Government officials, university professors, art lovers and artists trooped through the ornate white marble Palacio de las Bellas Artes to see what a fledgling U.S. collector had put together in a few years. The viewers saw a handsome survey of 57 paintings and six sculptures covering 180 years of U.S. art, from a serene John Singleton Copley portrait, Mrs. Roger Morris, finished in 1772, to first modern works by Watercolorists Charles Burchfield and John Marin, Painters Charles...
Fleischman and wife Barbara lost no time in wading in, are now sopping up Mexican culture, have started buying Mexican art, and have struck up an acquaintance with Artist Rufino Tamayo. In his way, Collector Fleischman is proving to be almost as good propaganda as his collection. He will travel with it to nine other Latin American countries in the next 20 months...
Marriage Revealed. Joseph Herman Hirshhorn, 56, fissionable, fabulously successful Brooklyn-reared uranium promoter, exuberant art collector (TIME, July 25, 1955); and Mrs. Mildred Hawley Heide, 37; in Baltimore...