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Abraham Teitelbaum's shakedown story opened the door for another sudden exit from the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Day after the Chicago lawyer testified, Charles Oliphant, the bureau's chief counsel, dashed off an angry letter of resignation to Harry Truman. The charge that he was part of a clique seeking payoffs was "fantastic," he said. The "attacks, vilification, rumor and innuendo are beyond the point of human endurance...
...While appealing a five-year conviction for perjury before the Kefauver committee, and awaiting trial on charges of engineering a $500,000-a-year Fire Department shakedown racket, New York's ex-Water Commissioner James J. Moran is studying at St. John's University in Brooklyn. His two courses: Principles of Ethics and Introduction to Christian Theology...
Speculation: 1) the cruisers were going to the Korean war; 2) they were being transferred to the Black Sea; 3) they were going to Abadan, Iran, to outglare the British cruiser there. Good guess: they were on a shakedown cruise to Murmansk...
...Viking's previous owner sailed her in 1949 from England to Panama, where the boat remained until DeSa bought it this spring. He intends to rent the craft in September before his Caribbean shakedown cruise...
Speaking of Money. In Batesville, Ark., under its advertisement for the picture Shakedown, the Landers Theater announced a new, higher admission price...