11 SIGNED LETTERS GEORGIA SENATOR WALTER F GEORGE 1930-1942 US SENATE LETTERHEAD

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Please email with any questions. Lot of 11 typed letters sent by Georgia Senator Walter F George between 1930 and 1942. All but one is typed on US Senate letterhead from the various committees that George sat on:Foreign Relations, Finance and Immigration. The letters were sent to two Macon, Georgia law firms:Hall, Grice & Bloch and Brock, Sparks & Russell. The letters from the 1940's addressed to Charles J Bloch and addressed "Dear Charlie".
Bloch served as a member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1927. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Georgia in 1932, One of the letters is the last page of a multi-page letter- the other page or pages is missing.
The letters dating 1930-32 are in regard to a legal case where attorneys from both law firms were representing petitioner Thomas L Ross.
"On November 12, 1920, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue determined a deficiency of income taxes against the petitioner for the year 1919, based on the failure of the taxpayer to include as a profit for that year ,456.41, his share of the surplus of a corporation which had been distributed, and assessed a penalty of 50 per cent. for fraudulent concealment of the same, under the provisions of section 250, Revenue Act of 1918 ( 40 Stat. 1082). The taxes and penalty assessed amount to ,830.99. On appeal to the Board of Tax Appeals the ruling of the Commissioner was affirmed. 13 B.T.A. 69.". The letters written in the 1940's are about various concerns in Bloch's district including rent- perhaps there was price gouging because of the War. The twelfth letter in the lot is written to Charles Bloch from Richard Russell, GA Senator, Chairman of the Committee on Immigration. All from a Macon estate.