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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special Service. During the 1948 campaign, as Mayock told it last week, he promised to raise $30,000 for the pinched Democratic Party purse. His method of doing so was to get a tax case fixed. A client of his named Louis Markus knew an insurance broker named William Solomon, and Solomon knew a prosperous New York chemical manufacturer named William S. Lasdon, who had a tax problem with an estimated $1,500,000 at stake. Expensive lawyers, including a former assistant commissioner of internal revenue, had been unable to get anything done at the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Appearance of Evil | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Mayock hustled off to Washington and had a personal chat with Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Six weeks later, after Snyder prodded his underlings, Lasdon got a favorable ruling and Mayock got $65,000 cash. He split $35,000 of it among himself, Markus and Solomon, took the promised $30,000 to Louis Johnson, later Harry Truman's Defense Secretary, then chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee. "I went to the Democratic National Committee and unloaded it on Louis Johnson's desk," Mayock testified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Appearance of Evil | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Mayock got around that obstacle by simply handing several acquaintances (including Markus and Solomon) cash in exchange for checks made out to the Democratic National Committee. That was, he admitted last week, a "close violation" of the Hatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Appearance of Evil | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Second Year--Phillip Areeda, Peter Bator, Frank K. Berlew, Derek C. Bok, Samuel C. Butler, Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel, Jesse W. Doolittle, Jr., Norman Gold, Allen Greenberg, John Kaplan, Andrew L. Kaufman, Joel Kozol, Stuart J. Land, Donald I. Laventhall, Keinard M. Leiman, Arnold Lozowick, Richard M. Markus, Richard P. McGrath, Bruce Nichols, William Nickols, John T. Noonan, William D. Parsley, Judson A. Parsons, Jr., Arnold I. Roth, Peter H. Schiff and Edward C. Stebbins...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Honor Societies Elect Law School Members | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

France: Philip C. F. Bankwitz; JeanPierre Barricelli; Charles Breunig; Preston C. Combs; John S. Coolidge; Richard A. Hornstein; Richard L. Ingraham; Harold Lubel (Second year grant); Martin E. Malia; Lawrence F. Markus; Warren D. Noakes; Whitson M. Overcash, Jr.; Milman Parry; Daniel R. Pinkham, Jr.; Jesse R. Pitts; Peter E. Schneider; Stephen M. Schwebel; Willard D. Sharpe; Sidney Simon; Edward Wasiolek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fullbright Grants Made to Fifty-six Students, Alumni | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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