Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pointed up the fact that the five-percent investigation was far from being a Teapot Dome. It was much lower-grade stuff-a record of bumbling, chiseling, and shabby wirepulling. Blundering, clownish Harry Vaughan was no credit to his uniform or his position, but nobody had proved him a crook. And with that, the investigating committee adjourned for at least a month...
Democrat Irving has been the duly elected representative of Harry S. Truman and 250,000 other constituents of Missouri's Fourth District since last November. A fortnight ago, in a court suit, 85 members of his union suggested that he was also a crook...
...less than a year Professor Crook got a patent: No. 1,645,643. Then he demonstrated models before the Army, Navy and other Government agencies. Always, he says, he got turndowns or runarounds...
Later Dr. Crook discovered that the Services which had rejected his invention were having it manufactured free of royalty. He tried to sue the Government, but he did not get the necessary permission until 1943. When the suit reached the U.S. Court of Claims, the little professor won a unanimous decision...
...still somewhat breathless about the possibilities. His shielding system was used, and is still being used, on innumerable airplanes, tanks and other radio-equipped vehicles. After winning his suit against the hard-to-sue Government, Crook thinks it will be easy to knock off airplane manufacturers and other unauthorized users. After that, he will try to prove that many important electrical devices, such as the coaxial cable, grew out of his patent. If he proves these points, the millions (about $5,000,000 from the Government, he figures) will shower down. "A reasonable settlement will have to be made," says...