Word: adamowski
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Last week Paschen announced that his worst fears had been confirmed. According to Banker Burke's report, a resounding $444,000 was missing from the county treasury, and, added Republican State's Attorney Benjamin Adamowski, the total might hit "millions" before the investigation ended. The boodling had followed Illinois tradition; e.g., court stenographers got paid $275 for 30 minutes' work (regular fee: $5 an hour); fat checks were made out to people who never existed, were duly endorsed and cashed -by whom...
...Chicago's boodling, buccaneering Democratic machine, the idea of a reformer as state's attorney (county prosecutor) has long been unthinkable. Last week the unthinkable happened: Benjamin S. Adamowski, a onetime Democrat who turned Republican in protest against the machine's wide-open rule, was elected Cook County state's attorney, with his own detective force, the power of subpoena-and the personal ability and determination to give the organization some days it will never forget. In an election that saw Republicans carry Cook County for Eisenhower, for U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen and nearly all county...