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Like Charles Oliphant, General Services Administrator Jess Larson cried out in anguish when his name was mentioned in Lawyer Teitelbaum's story. Larson hurried before the King subcommittee to deny that he was part of any shakedown clique. He used his harshest words on Frank Nathan, Florida influence peddler, identified by Teitelbaum as one of the men who made the shakedown proposition for the Washington "clique...
Larson said he knew that Nathan, at times tried to use the Larson name, and declared he had tried desperately to stop him. He had refused to take telephone calls from Nathan, hadn't taken one, in fact, for five or six months. "With the help of almighty God," cried Larson, "I hope you gentlemen will give us legislation to stop this sort of thing...
...Last week the King subcommittee asked Nathan whether Larson had telephoned him within the past year or so? Nathan couldn't remember any calls. Then Subcommittee Counsel Adrian DeWind introduced some startling evidence: a list of calls from the private telephone in Jess Larson's office, showing that Larson called Nathan nine times last June and July. The calls, ranging up to 20 minutes in lengfti, were made to Miami and to the Waldorf-Astoria in'New York...
...Naster mentioned Mr. Theron Lamar Caudle's name, too; and Mr. Nathan exhibited to me an oil contract in which Mr. Jess Larson's name, Mr. Theron Lamar Caudle's name, and Mr. Frank Nathan's name appeared . . . and they further told me that if I don't go ahead and let them take care of my matter, I was going to be prosecuted and sent to the penitentiary ... I told them to go to hell...
...Teitelbaum testimony was backed by a glossy brunette divorcee named Mrs. Shyrl B. Menkin, described by Teitelbaum as a "family friend." She heard much of the talk about the Washington clique, she said, and often heard Mr. Nathan mention the name of Theron Caudle (who was fired last month as head of the Justice Department's tax division-TIME, Nov. 26). Mr. Nathan did this, she said, "to impress me with the fact that the Nathans were such good friends of such an affluent person in the Government...