Word: finneganisms
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...that point, said Shapiro, "I walked into my office and called Mr. Delaney. I said, 'Mr. Friedman and Mr. Finnegan are in my office and claim they are tax experts. Are they all right...
...Good Friend. Brought to trial four weeks ago, Delaney was confronted by Maxwell Shapiro, a Boston wool merchant, who testified that in April 1949 a couple of men named Daniel Friedman and Hugh Finnegan had come to his office. Somehow they had discovered that Shapiro owed the Federal Government more than $140,000 in back taxes. According to Shapiro, the conversation was as follows...
...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...