Word: klein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Committee chairman are; publicity, Laura Klein: hotel arrangements, Louise Provinse; program, Carol Cummings Ellsberg and Anne Sears; printing, Holly Walker; tickets, Katherine Greenman; commuter arrangements, Sarah E. Pond. All are members of the Class...
...Little Peeved." Chain-smoking cigarettes through a holder, Bridges testified that Grunewald's lawyer, an old friend, had asked him to look into the Klein case. He did so and concluded that Klein was unjustly treated, but he insisted that his interest was purely casual-the sort of thing he would do for any taxpayer. The committee counsel, Adrian W. DeWind, then began reading from one of Washington's most interesting documents, a stenographic log of all Oliphant's telephone conversations and daily appointments, kept by Oliphant's secretary...
DeWind quoted from a telephone conversation in which Oliphant discussed the Klein case with another Bureau of Internal Revenue official and remarked, "I don't know how that ties in with what the Senator told you." Bridges' comment: "There are 95 other Senators and there are probably 3,000 state senators and 50 former United States Senators, and several thousand of that sort, and it might have been anybody, and I do not recall anything of that kind." Said DeWind: "Mr. Oliphant told the committee that you were the only Senator he recalls ever discussing the case with...
Other passages from the log indicated that Bridges discussed the Klein case with BIR officials at least five times. One passage was a warning from Grunewald to Oliphant that Bridges was "a little peeved" about one aspect of the Government's treatment of Klein, but on the whole was happy about the way BIR had handled the case. The evidence seemed to require a much fuller explanation from Bridges, but the committee apparently was unwilling to cross-examine a colleague from the upper chamber. After two hours, in which Bridges' recollection proved very vague, he stepped down from...
There is no evidence and no charge that Bridges accepted money for his intervention in the Klein case, and the line between undue influence and legitimate checking up on a Government bureau by a Senator is admittedly hard to draw. Nevertheless, when a Senator asks a pay raise for an official and asks the official for action on a tax case, he certainly opens the door to suspicion-and he puts a weapon in the hands of the rival party...