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When the news got to Washington, Furtado's boss, Collector James G. Smyth, was promptly suspended by the President. Less than an hour later, Dunlap held a press conference and announced the removal of six more San Francisco tax officials. Smyth and his lieutenants, explained the grim commissioner, were being removed for "incompetence." They should have known what Furtado was doing and stopped...
...slammed his fist on his desk. "Here's another," he announced in angry exasperation. Dorothy C. Frisbee, a 14-year veteran of the bureau, had admitted to embezzling $5,000 from the employees' credit union. Dunlap signed her suspension order on the spot. In San Francisco, Smyth insisted that he and his men were taking a "bum rap," yet Smyth seemed to have an extraordinarily relaxed attitude toward his job. According to the Kefauver Committee, Smyth was two years late in collecting some of his own income tax. "Hell, I hadn't done anything crooked," he explained...
Atomic Energy Commission. Since the publication of the Smyth report in 1945, the world has known that controlled fission reaction is possible in an atomic pile, releasing heat slowly over a long period of time. If a safe and economical way to harness this heat to a steam turbine could be devised, it would be an ideal propulsion unit for a submarine. Rickover persuaded the AEC to begin work on a pilot model...
Vocational Training. In Virginia's state penitentiary, Warden Frank Smyth, who had been encouraging inmates to study practical subjects, rejected as too practical one convict's request for a course in key-making...
...Government got some good news last week. Dr. Henry DeWolf Smyth, 53, top atomic scientist, author of the famed Smyth Report on atomic energy and onetime chairman of the Department of Physics at Princeton, announced that he is willing to serve a new five-year term as Atomic Energy Commissioner. Despite the irksome demands of congressional committees and the often overrigid security rules which had long since driven a whole parade of top scientists out of the AEC, Commissioner Smyth, after two years in the job, thought he had a patriotic duty to stick it out. Said he: "Developments during...