Word: clellan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems," intoned Senator John Mc-Clellan sternly, "that in this dragnet procedure we have caught an assortment of man-eating sharks." It was indeed as forbidding a catch of fish as John McClellan's Senate labor rackets investigating committee has yet snared. One by one last week's school of hoods-including notorious Extortionist John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi-appeared before the committee in the Senate caucus room and rasped out their Fifth Amendment pleas. But the evidence against them was there nonetheless. It added up to another chapter of the story of how mobsters took over segments...
Lausche, who has been politely mentioned as a presidential possibility by such powerful Southern Democrats as Georgia's Richard Russell and Arkansas' John Mc-Clellan, turned his thoughts only momentarily toward Paul Butler. "My strength," explained the five-term governor, as if to the inexperienced and the young, "has been that no one has been able to dictate to me-bankers on down to labor leaders, strip miners, truckers, the utilities and the whole raft of them...
...Arkansas Democrat John Mc-Clellan, the investigators said they hoped frankly that gentle Hugh Cross, hitherto a highly reputable public servant, would resign. Hugh Cross decided last week not to stay and fight. In a letter of resignation to President Eisenhower, he called the still-fuzzy charges against him "baseless." Wrote he: "I am realistic enough to know that, unfounded as they are, the mere pendency of such charges impairs my further service on the commission and its proper functioning in the public interest." Replying that he appreciated "the years of diligent service you have rendered." the President accepted star...
...reporters were told how two uniformed radio car patrolmen, Joseph Mc-Clellan and Donald Shea, had spotted Willie tinkering with the battery of a 1951 Chevrolet on a street close to the station. "Hey," Shea recalled saying, "that looks like Willie the Actor." Turning, McClellan had answered: "Don, I think you're right." When braced, Willie had naturally denied his identity. But the two coppers, the commissioner delightedly made clear, had not been fooled...
Shea drove back to the station and got Third-Grade Detective Louis Weiner. Mc-Clellan kept watch. And in a few minutes the three closed in again and seized the glittering prize. "The best collar in recent years," said the commissioner. Beaming, the commissioner dramatically promoted both Shea and McClellan to first-grade detective with a $1,000-a-year raise...