Word: lithofold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Louis federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against Jim Finnegan. He was charged with twice accepting bribes from a company that had a tax case pending in his office. And he faced three other counts of taking fees for representing private clients (including the notorious American Lithofold Corp.-TIME, Oct. 1) before Government agencies while he was getting a full-time Government salary...
Boyle referred to a Senate committee investigation into his acceptance of fees from the American Lithofold Corp. which got a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation after Boyle arranged a meeting between Lithofold and an RFC director. Wrote Boyle to Truman: "A Republican member of the [Senate] committee stated yesterday that the record contains 'no evidence of illegality or moral turpitude on my part. I should add to that that I have at all times conducted myself with honor and propriety...
...banquet in Kansas City. The President, the Vice President, four Cabinet members and most party bigwigs, including Jim Finnegan, were all there too. So was Kansas City Gangster Charlie Binaggio (who was riddled by bullets seven months later in a Kansas City Democratic clubhouse). Another expansive guest was American Lithofold's ubiquitous Robert J. Blauner. He paid for a whole table. It cost him, he told the Senate committee, "a thousand or twelve hundred dollars-I don't remember...
There was one other detail. When Boyle quit his law practice in 1949, Lithofold had gone right on paying its $500-a-month retainer to Boyle's ex-partner, Max Siskind. The payments to Boyle had totalled only $1,250. The payments to Siskind, to date, had totalled $14,000 and Siskind admitted that he has done only about five minutes' work for Lithofold in 28 months. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch charged that Bill Boyle got a total of $8,000 from Lithofold, instead of the $1,250 he swears to. Last week...
...committee voted to subpoena Boyle's bank account this week. If the records should show that Siskind passed along any of his fees from Lithofold, then Boyle has lied to the committee under oath, and-a far worse crime under Boyle's Law-to old friend Harry Truman...