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Influence Peddler Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald finally came up for sentencing in Washington last week for his contemptuous refusal to answer the questioning of congressional investigators (TIME, April 27). Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff, in a surprising aside, noted that Grunewald had been in contempt of Congress partly because of bad legal advice, fined him $1,000, added a go-day jail term, suspended it, and then put him on probation for a year...
Three times last week, Influence Peddler Henry Grunewald lowered his bursitis-racked bulk into the witness chair of the House subcommittee investigating the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Each time he dropped enough names and dollar signs to whet the investigators' appetites, then retreated into playful forgetfulness or plain refusal to answer. Items: ¶On his 1948 tax return was this item: "Presidential election bets, $20,000." Said Grunewald: "I bet on Harry Truman when everybody else dropped him." Where did he place the bet? With Miami Bookmaker Harold Salvey, a Kefauver committee witness now under indictment for income...
...errand boys was Harry Woodring, onetime (1936-40) Secretary of War. Woodring once (1948-49) went to Europe on a Grunewald mission to line up supplies of scarce metals. Grunewald collected $10,000 for the project, paid the former Secretary of War $2,500. ¶ Every year Grunewald spent about $900 giving $7.50 ties to friends. The ties were cut from a special bolt of cloth reserved for his "Christmas Tie-Out Club" by Manhattan's Charvet et Fils, purveyors of expensive cravats. The ties, said Grunewald. went to "high-class people." The subcommittee got a list of "club...
...good work for our beloved President, Franklin Roosevelt," or, at least, Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, an F.D.R. crony, had hired him to do some investigating and had said it was for Roosevelt. When sub committee members demanded to be told just what kind of job it was, Grunewald balked again: "I don't think the President would want it [told]." The subcommittee wearily pondered whether Grunewald, already convicted of contempt of Congress, was in contempt again...
...Favor for Me." Grunewald's stable of clients was as impressive as his list of contacts. Before World War II, the Chinese Nationalist government paid him $75,000 for getting it 100 fighter planes from North American Aviation Inc. It was simple, said Grunewald. He just called James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger, chairman of the board of North American, and asked him to sell the Chinese the hard-to-get planes as "a favor for me." (A spokesman for North American said the company had no record of such a deal, although it did sell 100 trainers to China...