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...surprise of hardly anyone, Internal Revenue Commissioner John Bettes Dunlap last week sprinted out of Washington and holed up in a safer spot. He resigned his $15,000-a-year job as top tax collector, and took an appointment from Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder as the new $13,500-a-year district commissioner of internal revenue for Texas and Oklahoma, with headquarters in Dallas. Reason: the Washington job is subject to political appointment, the Dallas job (one of 17 created by this year's reorganization of the Bureau of Internal Revenue) is a lifetime assignment protected...
Pushing even farther out of the G.O.P. corral was Chicago Insurance Broker Hermon Dunlap ("Dutch") Smith, a Republican who headed the Stevenson-for-Governor Committee in the 1948 Illinois gubernatorial campaign, last week planned to organize a national Citizens-for-Stevenson organization...
Commissioner of Internal Revenue John B. Dunlap has been criticized for not housecleaning his bureau briskly enough. On the other hand, Tennessee's ancient (82) Senator Kenneth McKellar thinks that in at least one case, Dunlap moved too fast. The case is that of Lipe Henslee, suspended from his job as Tennessee collector of internal revenue after the Federal Bureau of Narcotics officially reported that he is a dope addict. Henslee is an important wheel in McKellar's organization and since McKellar is up for reelection next year, the Senator was grieved over Henslee's suspension. Dunlap...
Brandishing his cane, McKellar thundered, "I'm going to beat the tar out of you." Dunlap, 48, retorted, "If you were 40 years younger, I'd knock your teeth down your throat," and walked out of McKellar's office unbeaten, unharmed...
...John Williams, with hardly anybody listening, had given Dunlap a clue to the real truth & consequences last February. Said Williams: "It is my belief that in many cases . . . the morale, efficiency and even the honesty of some of those who collect our federal taxes are distressingly bad . . . The reason ... is that our system of tax collection is shot full of cheap, inexcusable political manipulation...