Word: finneganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointed with Griswold was a second Harvard graduate, Richard Finnegan '35, consulting editor of the Chicago Sun-Times...
...review" of the football season and some popular marches will make up the first half of the program. The Band will play Springfield, Columbia, and Washington medleys, in addition to a new Colgate medley arranged by John A. Finnegan '47. The other medleys were arranged by Finnegan and Leroy Anderson...
...being rude to other politicians. Hannegan was only in the office four months. (He went on to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Postmaster General of the U.S., and part owner of the St. Louis Cardinals; he died in 1949.) In those four months Hannegan picked James Finnegan, a political hack, as his successor in St. Louis. He also picked his successor as commissioner of Internal Revenue, Joe Nunan, a Tammany character who had been collector in Brooklyn. To succeed himself in Brooklyn, Nunan picked Joseph P. Marcelle, a ward boss...
...Louis, Old Pol Finnegan was indicted for misconduct in office (the principal charge: he sold his influence to help big taxpayers get RFC loans), was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison...
...Louis federal judge last week told in detail how the Department of Justice reached out from Washington to interfere with a federal grand jury's investigation into tax-fraud cases. The investigation ultimately led to 31 indictments, including one against Harry Truman's old friend, James P. Finnegan of St. Louis, U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue (TIME, Oct. 22). Finnegan was convicted of misconduct in office, fined $10,000 and sentenced to two years...