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...months in jail). Young's wife Lauretta, a White House secretary until April 1951, received a $9,000 mink coat paid for by a lawyer representing firms that longed for RFC loans. Mrs. Young thereby trademarked the "mink coat" cycle of scandals. Another RFC beneficiary, the American Lithofold Corp., retained the Democratic National Committee's Bill Boyle-who resigned as national chairman after the fact became known. From American Lithofold came expensive cameras as "gifts" to Turney Gratz, an RFC official who became one of Boyle's top national committee aides. Assistant RFC Loan Manager Frank Prince...
...James B. E. Olson, a Nunan appointee, supervisor of the New York alcohol tax unit, was forced out after he admitted that he had taken $5,900 from the American Lithofold Corp. to arrange printing business with liquor dealers...
Reporter Ted Link headed a task force that spaded up paydirt in St. Louis' American Lithofold Co., and turned over enough stones in the RFC and Bureau of Internal Revenue to prove that both were acrawl with graft and influence peddling. As a direct result, National Democratic Party Boss Bill Boyle had to quit his job, and St. Louis' Internal Revenue Collector
...Hoey Committee (Senate) has become the biggest watchdog on corruption in federal executive departments. Under North Carolina's frock-coated Clyde Hoey, helped especially by Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy and California's Dick Nixon, the committee last year exposed Bill Boyle and the American Lithofold Corp. This year, fortified with a $100,000 budget and eight investigators, it will tackle the sale of tankers by the Maritime Commission in 1947 to the American Overseas Tanker Corp., then headed by Joseph E. Casey, onetime Congressman from Clinton, Mass. It will also delve further into the activities...
...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 who has been indicted for taking bribes. When Oliphant resigned, he provided another item for the list. He made public a personal financial statement listing a $1,300 loan from Henry Grunewald, a mysterious Washington private investigator...