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...Miami Beach. "Mr. Naster told me that-the substance of it was that I was going to have income-tax trouble unless I employed them . . . for $500,000. And I told him they were both crazy . . . They said there was a clique in Washington; that Mr. Charles Oliphant, Mr. Jess Larson, and there was a former collector of Internal Revenue by the name of Joe Nunan, and another who had just resigned, of the Internal Revenue department, Mr. Schoeneman, were all together with Mr. Larson. [They] comprised the whole-I wouldn't say a triumvirate, but a combine...
...Naster mentioned Mr. Theron Lamar Caudle's name, too; and Mr. Nathan exhibited to me an oil contract in which Mr. Jess Larson's name, Mr. Theron Lamar Caudle's name, and Mr. Frank Nathan's name appeared . . . and they further told me that if I don't go ahead and let them take care of my matter, I was going to be prosecuted and sent to the penitentiary ... I told them to go to hell...
...turnabout in rubber is the result of increased synthetic production and lower prices on crude rubber. When the Korean war sent the price of natural rubber skyrocketing from 43? to 80? a pound in Singapore, Jess Larson's General Services Administration took over all rubber importing. It beat down prices (47? last week) by restricting buying, put government-owned synthetic plants back in production, stepped up output to more than 760,000 tons for 1951, a rise of 87% in the past two years. With controls lifted, tiremakers last week confidently announced that they would soon be able...
...ought to buy the Empire State Building of which Smith was president. "We all know that the [building] is a losing proposition," wrote the President, "but. . . it is ideally located for a central Federal Office Building." After an investigation, Jones reported that the price was far too high. "Yes, Jess," Roosevelt replied, "all that is probably true, but I would like to do something for Al Smith. He is broke and has an expensive family...
...scarce, but Harvey seemed to have no trouble finding it. He persuaded the Interior Department's Bonneville Power Administration to assign him 111,500 kilowatts from the new Hungry Horse Dam being built near Kalispell, Mont. To use the power, Harvey needed electric rectifiers. From War Surplus Boss Jess Larson, Harvey bought enough for a complete "pot-line" (i.e., enough to make 35 million Ibs. of aluminum a year). After that, all Harvey needed to make aluminum was i) a plant, and 2) the money to build it. Last fall Harvey put in his bid for the $46 million...