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REPORT: KENNEDY—-KOPECHNE GASE. In February; 1922, rt had original contact with the Kennedy-Fitagerald, family. While attending a tax audit of Baxter & Whitney, Inc., manufacturers, of woodwork and machinery for the Ford Moter Company, whose cars at that. tine were entirely made of wood, I had dinner at the Hotel Winchendon. At. dinner, The speaker was Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston, the grandfather of Edward Kennedy. after the. dinner, Iwas asked by one of the, officials if Mrs. Robba could play. the Sweet Adeline. song for Mayor Pitagerald. LX toid the offieial to ask Mrs. Reva, “that, if she is. willing, I have no objections; and she did. After dinner, Mayor Ritagerald presented her with 4 bouquet President and Treasurer of Baxter & Whitney, Ine... ident us very kindly the use of hiss autcmobile to take us. bask to. Worcester: where: we were staying overnight at the Bankero£t Hotel. Phe Second occasion IT had to meet Kennedy's relative was at a meeting. of the brother of Mayor Fitzgerald, whe was: Treasurer of the Turner+Taming i J the. sane time, It appears that. the Winchendon Chanber of Commerce had a. | 5 i | ! ! | | i { Machinery Gompany of Peabody, Massachusetts. It geens that the turner-fannang | ‘ssepy ‘ioysqeu, quequnodoy aang vaaOu 'd SATEVHO Machinery Company filed false tax returns for three years in World War I, i i j { | | of flowers 5» which were on the: speakers. "table. Mr, William H, Whitney, | i 4 t ry } i 4 H | | and sin¢e the amount due was over $200,000, which would be eqial to $1,000,000: | today, they were informed by the Collector of Internal Revenue O'Malley that they would have ‘bo go to gail for filing false tax returns. since the amount was so enormous, The other brother of Mayor Fitzeerald was a partner of Fitzgerald Stock Brokers art Boston, then Located at 7 Park Avenue, the present Location of the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston. The one brother was President that time, I was tax manager for the Boston and Worcester offices of Marwick, t | i | and the other. was Treasurer Bf the Turner-Tanning Machinery Gompany. At ' Mitchell, Peat & Co., which was then the biggést Accounting firm in the United States, with 67 offices, I was assigned the case and went to Peabody to Leok over the situation... I took some data that FT required and went to agreed to consider the matter as Long as I could get the data together and submit an intermediate report. On returning to Boston, I went to Peabody and started working on thé case to prepare the figures for the Internal i | ; | | Washington and submirtted my case to the internal Revenue Service. They i : i . t Revenye Service. It took me six months to get thé data together. After I . |