Word: nunan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator John J. Williams, the Delaware Republican who touched off the scandals in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, fired another salvo last week. His target was Joseph D. Nunan Jr., Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1944 until he resigned in 1947, with a warm letter of thanks from Harry Truman, to become a Manhattan tax attorney. Many of the officials whom the tax scandals have forced out of office were his close associates, but Nunan himself had appeared only on the edges of the investigations. Senator Williams now fitted him into a gallery of old familiar faces...
...said Williams, Nunan represented an Indianapolis brewery that was fighting a Government tax claim for $636,000. Nunan somehow got a settlement for a piffling $4,500. The Washington officials who so generously okayed the reduction were none other than T. Lamar Caudle of the Justice Department and BIR's Charles Oliphant, both of whom figured conspicuously in the Washington housecleaning. The brewery case, Williams continued, covered years when Nunan was boss of the BIR. Ex-BIR officials are forbidden by law to act in such cases, he said, but "it appears that this section...
...have income-tax trouble unless I employed them . . . for $500,000. And I told him they were both crazy . . . They said there was a clique in Washington; that Mr. Charles Oliphant, Mr. Jess Larson, and there was a former collector of Internal Revenue by the name of Joe Nunan, and another who had just resigned, of the Internal Revenue department, Mr. Schoeneman, were all together with Mr. Larson. [They] comprised the whole-I wouldn't say a triumvirate, but a combine -for the purposes of looking around the country to see who are the soft touches, or words...