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...wouldn't know that, sir," he replied contemptuously, "you'd have to take that up with my tax attorney." Like many another witness, Knohl was called before the committee because of his dealings with Caudle. Knohl was an "investigator" for Samuel Aaron and Jacob Friedus, New Yorkers later convicted of income-tax evasion. With Friedus, he recalled, he met Tax Prosecutor Caudle at the Department of Justice. "Caudle said, 'Mr. Friedus, this office has no persecution complex,' " Knohl testified...
Little Sheepskin Coat. Then there was Jacob Landau, a New York attorney whose Washington office specialized in fighting tax cases brought by the U.S. Landau paid $5,000 for an oil lease from a man Caudle steered him to, and Caudle collected a $1,000 commission on the deal...
Smelser is a National Scholar, and was among the eight juniors elected to PhiBeta Kappa last year. He won the Edwards Whittaker Prize in his freshman year, and as a sophomore was awarded the Jacob Wendell Prize Scholarship...
This was a placid gathering. The biggest issue that might have thrown it into turmoil was deferred when 65-year-old Phil Murray, recovered from an almost fatal illness, agreed to carry on as C.I.O. president. He was unanimously re-elected for his twelfth term. Nominating Murray, bearded Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the Clothing Workers, called him "not only a labor leader but a leader of mankind." To take some of the load off Murray, Organization Director Allan Haywood was named to the new position of executive vice president...
...become a civil engineer, Ben switched to Ohio Northern University, working summers as an attendant in an insane asylum. In 1913, with his hard-won degree, he returned to Justus to work as a surveyor for the railroad. He got into the steel business by accident. In Massillon, "General" Jacob Coxey was gathering an army of unemployed to make a second march on Washington in protest against the hard times. Ben took an interurban to watch the show, but never got to Massillon. Just outside the town he saw men clearing the site for a new plant for the Central...