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Boyle Recoil. Political embarrassments trailed the President all week. He told his press conference that he was still looking into charges that Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle took fees from a St. Louis firm just before it got a big RFC loan (TIME, Aug. 6). He had hurried to defend other cronies when someone said that they had been caught with their morals down. But he kept a glum, tight-lipped silence about Boyle...
...bankruptcy court that the Senator had lost $5,500 shooting craps with the witness' son, Bob Jr., but had brazenly welshed on the debt. He also said that he helped McCarthy write the famed pamphlet on housing regulations for which Lustron Corp., a now defunct outfit which set RFC back $37.5 million, paid the Senator $10,000. McCarthy never coughed up a cent of that, either, said Byers...
...September 1949, RFC raised the Lithofold loan to $465,000, added $100,000 the following November...
...this might have gone unnoticed if the Internal Revenue Department hadn't got curious about Jim Finnegan. Government agents called at his office to ask a few questions. A few months later, and some two years before the notes were due, Lithofold hastily paid back the RFC loan...
...grand jury has since turned its eyes on him. This second investigation is still going on. From the U.S. Senate floor, Delaware's John Williams charged that Finnegan, when he was a Government official, had made a practice of collecting attorney's fees from corporations which solicited RFC money...