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...trap-jawed Congressman stubbornly ignored all invitations to testify before the Senate's Mead Committee, a whole array of Congressmen and Senators trooped in to explain how their names had popped up in the investigation of the Garsson munitions combine. In a matter of minutes Mead Committeemen examined and exonerated House Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Adolph Sabath, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Still Calling Yankel | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Today's parade will move as far as Central Square. Plans call for appointment of a delegation of price control committeemen to visit Representative Curley urging repassage of the original...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buyers' Strike Parade Scheduled in Move to Hold Cambridge Price Line | 7/23/1946 | See Source »

...clock. They were there to witness the beginning of the end of a political dynasty. As they waited, the room grew rank and grey with smoke and politicians' talk. Three quarters of an hour late, the Boss-Mayor Edward J. Kelly- strode in. The committeemen put down their racing forms and clapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Call Me Jack | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...years Ed Kelly and Pat Nash, the sewer contractor, had run Chicago. That was a long time. Now Pat was dead, and the Boss was 70. The committeemen watched as Corporation Counsel Barnet Hodes whispered in the Boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Call Me Jack | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...audience the man in the green suit borrowed a pencil to mark a good thing in the sixth at Arlington. Corporation Counsel Hodes, who had helped write the statement, said that it was wonderful, and several committeemen made speeches about how they felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Call Me Jack | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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