Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite Press Secretary Charlie Ross's protestations, the President's own careful silence, no one missed the political implications. One of the first men the President spoke to as he arrived in Independence was Kansas City Boss Jim Pendergast (nephew of the notorious Tom), who had reluctantly broken an old political alliance to back the President's candidate...
Politician Truman made no bones about how deeply he had intervened in his home territory's primary fight. Yes, he had talked it over with Kansas City's Democratic Boss Jim Pendergast (nephew and heir of Harry Truman's political mentor and sometime convict, the late Tom Pendergast). Yes, he had encouraged Jim Pendergast to throw his organization's support to one of Slaughter's two opponents: a politically unknown, young (37) lawyer named Axtell...
...rare pleasure of seeing a restaurateur presented with a whopping bill. For dodging payment of $2,872,766 in income taxes, Henry Lustig, owner of Manhattan's high-priced restaurant chain, Longchamps Restaurants, Inc., was sentenced to four years in prison, fined $115,000. His partners-in-crime, Nephew E. Allen Lustig and Bookkeeper Joseph Sobel, were given three-and two-year terms, respectively. Hardly had Uncle Sam presented one bill to Henry Lustig than he reached in his pocket for another. Lustig and his corporations still owe the U.S. Treasury an additional $7,726,124 in taxes...
...last week to form the country's largest investment banking house (capital: $25,000,000). The First Boston Corp., the most widely owned investment house in the business (8,000 stockholders) absorbed Mellon Securities Corp., the most closely held. Mellon Securities is wholly owned by Richard King Mellon, nephew of the late Andrew William Mellon, and his sister, Sarah Mellon Scaife...
...Nephew Lustig topped even this. He claimed a tax deduction for his dependent mother-in-law for four years after her death. Lustig admitted all this.His only defense : he had voluntarily told the Treasury of the evasions, had been promised immunity if he paid up. The deal had been made, said he, with Internal Revenue Collector William J. Pedrick on March 26, 1945. Retorted Pedrick: there had been no deal. At the time set by Lustig, Pedrick had been attending an Alfred E. Smith memorial dinner-and eight prominent Manhattanites so testified...