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...salad days he was not above going down to the railroad station to greet incoming purchasing agents as they stepped off the train. But Salesman Block never used high-pressure methods. Amiable, gentle, softspoken, he resembles the oldtime drummer only in that he continually smokes a long black cigar...
...Will you swear," pressed Chairman Black, "that you did or did not give some-thing to a Congressman which was wrapped in a piece of paper in a cigar box and that this was carried out of the hotel...
...Carpenter reappeared with his memory refreshed by a telephone call to his son in Dallas. The son. he now recollected, had noticed Representative Patton reaching for a cigar, generously presented him with the whole...
...Wife & Texas. Afire with self-respect, Representative Patton stomped into the hearing room next day with an empty cigar box, two Department of Agriculture books wrapped in a newspaper. He was there, he explained, for the sake of "the great State of Texas," and "the pretty little country girl I married." Mr. Carpenter's son, he said; had given him the cigars during a friendly visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That...
Great was Nat Patton's dismay when his friend Eugene Sellers took the stand to testify that the box he saw Mr. Patton carrying away from the Carpenters' did not seem like a cigar box to him. It was too small and light. Furthermore, Representative Patton's nephew, Norris Shook, had declared: "Hell, no, that wasn't cigars." And several days later Representative Patton told Friend Sellers: "Well, I bought one of those baby bonds." Afterward, Nephew Shook had hinted: "Uncle bought a bond and it wasn...