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...years ago its plant was padlocked for alleged reselling of newsprint-though the difference between what the newspaper bought and what it used had been less than eleven ounces. Then Peron expropriated Editor Torino's personal property, and a Salta judge slapped a lien on his bank account. Torino fought back, brought out a mimeographed edition of El Intransigente, and appealed for help to the Inter-American Press Association. Peron declined to let the Association's commission into Argentina, then jailed Torino for running his clandestine paper and for "disrespect" toward the Salta judge...
...first mention of Oliphant's name in the flurry of Washington investigations. Testimony disclosed that he accompanied Theron Caudle on a deep-sea fishing flight to Florida, in the airplane of a man in tax trouble. After the trip, Caudle talked to Oliphant about a U.S. tax lien against their host's property, and the lien was removed. Oliphant had accepted one of those $100 cameras handed out to Government officials as a "goodwill" gesture by the now famed RFC client, American Lithofold Corp. The gift was arranged by James Finnegan, St. Louis former Internal Revenue collector...
...whole party, which included Charles Oliphant, counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. While these pleasant jaunts were going on, the U.S. was investigating Whitehead's tax status. Caudle said he had just a "faint recollection" that he might have telephoned Oliphant about removing a $40,000 tax lien the U.S. had against Whitehead's plant. That would have been "the most normal thing" to do, he said, since he talked with Mr. Oliphant almost every day. Day after his faintly recollected telephone call on the Whitehead case, the lien was lifted...
...Last week the Federal Government slapped a $656,151 lien against the LeBlanc Corp. for taxes past due on 1950 income. LeBlanc said that was a problem for the new owners, since they acquired both debts and assets. Said he: "If you sell a cow and the cow dies, you can't do anything to a man for that...
...record in the 1947 World Series when he was called from the bullpen in six of the seven games; by his own hand; in Atlanta, Ga. Depressed by his fall from big-league to semi-pro ball, by a messy paternity suit, a $6,759 tax lien and a reported heart ailment, the onetime "Fat Fireman of Flatbush" telephoned to his estranged wife, told her "I'm all dead inside," then, as she listened, shot and killed himself...