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...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...
Another confidential source provided Williams with photostats of secret Treasury reports on corruption in the St. Louis office of Collector Jim Finnegan. After being cleared by a grand jury, Finnegan resigned, and Treasury Secretary Snyder assured Williams that nothing was wrong in St. Louis. William disagreed. A week after the second grand jury investigation began, he flatly charged the Treasury Department with withholding secret reports. The reports were produced, and Finnegan was indicted on two counts of bribetaking and three of misconduct (TIME, Oct. 22). In a speech the following month, Williams announced to the Senate, with mild relish, that...
...Musical Revue of the Football Season," is the theme of the first half of the concert. The band will execute, the Springfield, Holy Cross, Columbia, Cornell, West Point, and Crimson medleys, all arranged by Leroy Anderson '29 and John A. Finnegan '47. At the Army-Harvard contest, Finnegan's "Crimson Medley" was presented for the first time...
...matter was particularly embarrassing to Old Friend Truman because Finnegan had just told a House subcommittee that he had tried three times to resign as collector, and his resignation had been turned down. The last time, the President asked him to stay on, said Finnegan. Harry Truman, at his press conference, said his recollection was rather hazy on the conversation, but the White House staff thought what Finnegan said was true. He learned about Finnegan's outside activities just a short time ago, said the President solemnly, and he does not approve of them...