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...a-year sheriff bought an airplane, a new automobile and a new house. He took his wife on a trip to Lake Tahoe. He got the county to provide a $163 uniform which was loaded with gold braid. But Ard himself told him "not to put that damn thing on and make a fool of himself." It seemed that no matter what he did, people objected...
...plans, but restored to duty as the Army's Quartermaster General. Major General Alden H. Waitt, 56, who had tried to wangle a second term as chief of the Chemical Corps by running down all his potential rivals, was sacked: he went into retirement on a $6,600-a-year pension...
...another occasion, Reparations Commissioner Ed Pauley described him as "not only a good friend of mine but also the President's . . ." The letters got him a $5,600-a-year job with the State Department and free transportation to Greece with a U.S. mission at a time when he was also drawing $1,000 a month from Albert Verley & Co., Chicago perfume importers...
Witness Cedric R. Worth turned out to be a big, balding, 49-year-old bureaucrat in pince-nez glasses, a onetime Hollywood scripter, wartime Navy commander, and now a $10,305-a-year special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy. Chairman Vinson plunged right...
Sooner or later, every dollar spent by the U.S. Government must pass the watchful eye of ex-Congressman Lindsay Carter Warren. As the $12,000-a-year Comptroller General of the U.S., Warren has frequently barked an alarm at war contract settlements; he believes that "everybody and his brother were out to get the Government during the lush war years." Last week, Watchdog Warren showed some real bite. In a report to Congress on war contract settlements, he accused federal agencies of "improper payment of many millions of dollars of public funds through fraud, collusion, ignorance, inadvertence or overliberality...