Word: finnegan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character parts, and there are many of them, are well handled. I found Neil Powell, the American naval officer highly amusing and, although Jerry Kilty's accent made his Drinkwater hard to follow at times, it seemed to me a full and clever characterization. Edward Finnegan also added greatly to the supporting cast...
Peter Temple's direction maintained a suitably brisk pace, but a brief interplay of mugging between Miss Revere and Finnegan in the first act served only to distract the audience from a crucial piece of early exposition...
...Pete" Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch brought up the case of James Finnegan, St. Louis collector of internal revenue who is under indictment for taking bribes to fix taxpayers' accounts. Wasn't he exposed before the executive department acted? Didn't Finnegan testify that Truman even asked him to stay on the job? Truman snapped that he had consistently backed Secretary of the Treasury Snyder's request for Finnegan's resignation. Checking back, reporters found that in his Oct. 11 press conference Truman had said his recollection on the point was hazy...
...Oliphant about a U.S. tax lien against their host's property, and the lien was removed. Oliphant had accepted one of those $100 cameras handed out to Government officials as a "goodwill" gesture by the now famed RFC client, American Lithofold Corp. The gift was arranged by James Finnegan, St. Louis former Internal Revenue collector who has been indicted for taking bribes. When Oliphant resigned, he provided another item for the list. He made public a personal financial statement listing a $1,300 loan from Henry Grunewald, a mysterious Washington private investigator. Oliphant refused to comment on the loan...
While he was collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis, James P. Finnegan, a Truman crony of long standing, showed a real knack for picking up money on the side. A federal grand jury recognized that talent last October, indicted Finnegan for accepting bribes from taxpayers and taking fees to represent clients before Government agencies. This week brought to light a new fact in the wake of Finnegan's exposure. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat disclosed that the Zenith Radio Corp. paid him $50,000, while he was still St. Louis collector, to get scarce film with which...