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...detective, and he wasn't physically tough. But he had a genius for ferreting out the sources of gangsters' income and jailing crooks for tax evasion. Elmer Irey and his T-men put the finger on such arrogant law-flout-ers as Al Capone, "Nucky" Johnson, Moe Annenberg and Tom Pendergast...
...tracing registered ransom bills, the technique was always much the same: to determine the size of the gangster's loot, then match it against his income-tax returns. By 1940, Irey had uncovered $476,573,129 in tax deficiencies (the Philadelphia Inquirer's late Publisher Moe Annenberg made the largest single contribution to the Treasury: $8,000,000). At one time nearly two-thirds of all federal prisoners were men jailed as a result of Irey's patient, adding-machine methods...
...Four years ago Walter H. Annenberg's Triangle Publications killed Click, a thriving magazine with 1,000,000 circulation, in order to use its paper for fast-growing Seventeen...
Died. James Herbert Wilkerson 78 famed racket-busting federal judge, who sentenced Al Capone to prison in 1931; in Chicago. Judge Wilkerson also tried Utilities Tycoon Samuel Insull and Racing Form Publisher Moe Annenberg...
...getting it started last week, Publisher Walter Annenberg's Inquirer beat John S. Knight's Miami Herald to the draw as the first U.S. newspaper to broadcast regular, daily facsimile editions to its readers. At week's end the Herald, whose first receivers were delayed by weather, got on the air too, for readers at a supermarket. The New York Times and a dozen other dailies were getting ready. They weren't quite sure where facsimile would lead them, but the press had once badly underestimated radio and television, and it did not intend...