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...kind of guy-we need more men like Nunan," remarked the late Robert Hannegan of St. Louis, onetime (1943-44) Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Soon after, when Hannegan became Democratic Party Chairman, he picked Joseph D. Nunan Jr. to succeed...
...commissioner (1944-47), Nunan found need for his own cronies in top jobs. For Brooklyn collector he chose Joseph P. Marcelle, a Brooklyn ward boss. For director of New York's alcohol tax unit: James B. E. Olson, his former deputy...
When Republican Senator John J. Williams touched off the scandals in the BIR, Marcelle and Olson were among the first casualties. Daniel A. Bolich, one of Nunan's top tax agents in New York, who later became Assistant Internal Revenue Commissioner, was indicted for evading $7,444 of his own income tax. But Joe Nunan, who had been the No. 1 man in the tax-collecting hierarchy, managed to duck the committee's questions, quietly became a tax attorney...
...James B. E. Olson, a Nunan appointee, supervisor of the New York alcohol tax unit, was forced out after he admitted that he had taken $5,900 from the American Lithofold Corp. to arrange printing business with liquor dealers...
...Tammanyite Nunan, who resigned in 1947 and later had a lucrative law practice of tax cases, refused last April to tell the House investigating subcommittee how he happened to have $160,000 in undeclared income from 1944 to 1950. A grand jury is investigating...