Word: crummer
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...York's Representative Kenneth B. Keating, wanted to ask McGranery some questions about an earlier day. The committee was trying to find out whether the Justice Department was "improperly induced" to drop a $185,000 million mail-fraud case against Kansas City Bond Dealer Roy E. Crummer in 1946. At tHat time, McGranery was an assistant attorney general under Tom C. Clark, now a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...third was the Crummer case, which Clark's Justice Department dropped. McGranery said that the case, like the others, should have been routed through his office, but he didn't even hear of it until he became attorney general six years later. Said McGranery: "You can't have secrets and dispense justice behind closed doors in our system. It must be done in wide-open spaces . . . I say to you gentlemen that you cannot dismiss matters under these circumstances without leaving real suspicion, and cause and reason for that suspicion...