Word: mayock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face was Welburn S. Mayock, Washington lawyer, loyal Democrat and self-styled "political manager." Now a grizzled, paunchy 59, Mayock began politicking as a 14-year-old Democratic precinct worker in his native California, rose to be counsel to the treasurer of the national committee in 1944-46, organizer and treasurer of the national Truman-Barkley Club in 1948. Often called "Judge Mayock," he explains that the title is a "phony," conferred by friends who wanted to "adorn a person of no importance...
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...