Word: finneganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commissions, American Lithofold was losing money. Twice it applied for an RFC loan. Twice it was refused. Refreshing his memory from a voluminous diary, Toole gave an account of his company's negotiations. Company officials held a council of war in Washington. Present was James P. Finnegan, then Federal Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis. No one had told Toole that Finnegan was on the corporation's payroll. At the time, Toole could only wonder why a federal official from St. Louis was attending a company conference in Washington, and why Finnegan later handed Lithofold...
...adequate character portrayals by other members of the cast make the above shortcomings insignificant. Jerry Kilty, as Captain Vere, does an outstanding job, while John Kerr and Peter Temple, with the symbolic and less concrete roles, do more than competent jobs. Paul Sparer, Robert Fletcher, Richard Kilbride, and Ed Finnegan are the outstanding performers among the supporting cast...
...Power. That was where the coincidences came in. Early in 1949, before he was the $30,000-a-year chairman of the Democratic National Committee but already a man of power in the party,* Boyle's name was added to Lithofold's payroll at $500 a month. Finnegan's name was also added, at $1,000 a month. No one then or since has ever made clear what Boyle's and Finnegan's duties were. But a few weeks later, RFC lent Lithofold its first...
Hasty Repayment. All of this might have gone unnoticed if the Internal Revenue Department hadn't got curious about Jim Finnegan. Government agents called at his office to ask a few questions. A few months later, and some two years before the notes were due, Lithofold hastily paid back the RFC loan...
There was a grand jury investigation of Finnegan. He was cleared of any wrongdoing; nevertheless, he resigned as Collector and went back to practicing law. But another grand jury has since turned its eyes on him. This second investigation is still going on. From the U.S. Senate floor, Delaware's John Williams charged that Finnegan, when he was a Government official, had made a practice of collecting attorney's fees from corporations which solicited RFC money...