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Quickly called to testify was Ernest Smoot, youngest of six children, who served his Mormon father as secretary, his father's committee as clerk. A fair-haired, quiet man of 32, Son Ernest sat most of the time with his hand to his mouth. There were embarrassing documents in the record. One was a telegram he had sent to Mr. Hanshue: "Still have hopes General will approve your high bid. ... If he renders decision giving you contract under low bid, accept first checks under protest and file claim for the difference. This seems . . . foolish but it is a precedent...
Answering questions in a barely audible voice. Son Ernest admitted that at the time he had been drawing a salary of $3.325 as clerk of the Finance Committee. For his services to Western Air he had finally been paid not $15.000 as billed but $2.500. While on the Senate payroll his outside earnings had totalled...
...London postman ambled along Charter House Street, turned in at the office of The Diamond Corp. "Good morning," said he to a clerk. "Registered parcel for you. sir. A bit brisk out, sir. Just sign here, if you please, sir." He dipped into his brown canvas sack, passed out a paper package no bigger than a dornick. He touched his cap, ambled out again into Charter House Street. Because the package was addressed personally to Louis Oppenheimer, brother of The Diamond Corp.'s potent Board Chairman Sir Ernest, the clerk took it unopened to his office. Mr. Oppenheimer unwrapped...
Vilma Foerster Renate Mueller Arvai, Director of the Bank Hermann Thimig Hasel, a Bank Clerk Felix Bressart Klapper, Head of the Bank's Employment Department Ludwig Stoessel Boarding House Matron Gertrude Wolle...
Only way to force the bill on to the floor was for 145 Representatives to sign a petition to withdraw it from the Ways & Means Committee. The petition was started, kept in a black notebook on the desk of the journal clerk. Day after day Representatives sidled up to the desk and signed. When 113 names were on the list Democratic Leader Byrns gloomily prophesied the total number would be reached. When the list neared 140 Speaker Rainey, who cannot control the House as Speakers Longworth and Garner used to do, paid a hurried visit to the White House, returned...