Word: bratten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DAVID BRATTEN Winston-Salem...
...Another handle for critics of the Administration: Flo Bratten, secretary to the "Veep," had apparently...
...With the Bratten-Shaver case, Jack Steele of the New York Herald Tribune adds to his record...
Jack Steele, a deceptively jolly, roly-poly fellow, got his latest beat by his usual hard digging, plus a nose for news which sniffed something worth digging for. While skimming through the records of office calls of RFC officials, he ran across the names of Mrs. Bratten and Shaver. The references sounded harmless, but why were they mentioned at all? When Steele discovered that at the time of the visits, Shaver was listed as an associate in Chase & Williams, a Washington law firm, he thought he had something...
Evidence Found. He dredged up hints that Shaver and Mrs. Bratten had been interested in a hotel loan, followed the trail to Miami, Detroit and Minneapolis before clinching the fact that Chase & Williams represented the group seeking the loan. When Steele confronted Mrs. Bratten and Shaver with his evidence, they admitted they had tried to influence RFC. As usual, Steele did much of his news hounding by phone, a system he swears by. Says he: "People will tell you more over the telephone, sometimes, than they will when you're face to face with them...