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In his Government service under three Democratic Presidents, James McCauley Landis built an image as a relentless reformer. "He cuts, thrusts and slashes at everything in sight," a friend of his once said. "There's no fooling around with that man."
A Presbyterian missionary's son and a onetime dean of Harvard Law School, Landis was a Federal Trade Commissioner in New Deal days. Under Harry Truman he served as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Late in 1960, President-elect Kennedy appointed him to investigate all of the Federal...
Landis, a member of the New Deal-Fair Deal wing of the Democratic party, occupied important appointive positions under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. He was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, and chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. In 1960, he was...
A statement issued in behalf on Landis said that his failure to file the returns was "initially due to the unavailability of information concerning the tax basis of certain securities inherited by the tax-payer some 30 years earlier, which he had sold in order to meet a pressing family...
The statement went on to say that "subsequently, the taxpayer, being engrossed in public affairs and the affairs of clients, neglected his own personal matters, including the income tax returns." Also, the statement said, Landis delayed filing tax returns for the following four years until he could complete the return...