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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held it in 1933, moved out to make room for Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter, the job went to Morrison Shafroth of Denver, whose father, John Franklin Shafroth, was Governor of Colorado twice, Senator from 1913 to 1919. Last week, the post was vacant again. Secretary Morgenthau announced that Morrison Shafroth and his first assistant, Russell J. Ryan, had resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Shafroth Out | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

When Administration officials appeared at the Congressional tax evasion inquiry last summer, Lawyer Shafroth did not approve their naming companies and individuals who had discovered and used tax loopholes. The obvious deduction that his resignation-sent in last June but not accepted until last week-was the consequence of his being overruled, was confirmed by two statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Shafroth Out | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Said Lawyer Shafroth: "Assistant Chief Counsel Russell J. Ryan and I were unable to convince ourselves it was proper to use the Bureau of Internal Revenue as planned in the tax avoidance and evasion investigation. Being given the choice of participating in the presentation of the names or resigning, we tendered our resignations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Shafroth Out | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Said Secretary Morgenthau: "He differed with a policy I was trying to carry out." Four days later Secretary Morgenthau announced Lawyer Shafroth's successor: John P. Wenchell, heretofore an assistant Treasury general counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Shafroth Out | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...York Sun for a year, returned to his native Denver for a law degree, married Cora May, daughter of James H. Peabody, famed Colorado Governor during the Cripple Creek gold rush. Enlisting for the War, he became a first lieutenant of artillery. After practicing his profession with John F. Shafroth, onetime Colorado Governor and Senator, and William V. Hodges, one-time G. O. P. treasurer, Mr. Rogers took the deanship of the University of Colorado's Law School. Public-spirited, he helped Colorado taxpayers fight their Moffat Tunnel case, served as local president of the Boy Scouts, headed the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Full Sub-Cabinet | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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