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...Lithofold Corp. had some good friends-of-friends. One was ex-RFCer Merl (Mink Coat) Young, who phoned Alexander from Washington that "the Democratic National Committee is interested in this loan." Another was James Finnegan, St. Louis Collector of Internal Revenue and crony of the President. Finnegan added his pleas. Finnegan would generally agree with Alexander that some of Lithofold's business practices were unsound (as Alexander recalled it), "but he would invariably ask, at each meeting, 'How's the loan coming, Charlie...
...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...
...probable lineups: VARSITY M.I.T. Corning g. Woodward Bliss or Carman r.d. Pinkham Sedgwick or Burke l.d. Anderson Marshall r.w. Grady or Spalding Kittredge c. Russell Preston (C) l.w. Finnegan...
...senior tackles, Joe Finnegan and Walt Clemens, anchor the line and since they are Hickman's defenders as well as his best offensive men at their positions, they play both ways. Finnegan, a 189-pound New Haven townic, has had hard luck in the form of a broken leg in 1947, and an appendectomy in 1948, but managed to become a regular last fall. Clemens, at 187, was one of the original "Seven Dwarfs" of the 1949 line...