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...Agriculture Department, guardian of the nation's farmers and cop on the beat of commodity speculation, had sworn testimony to the effect that a speculating combine-including some Government officials-had been formed to corner commodity markets. Agriculture's Commodity Exchange Authority got its evidence from Dyke Cullum, a speculator whose accounts had been manipulated. Under oath, Cullum told of being invited to join the group by a man who promised the connivance of Government officials with access to advance information on Government buying plans...
...Sample information: a sudden Government decision last March to buy 870,000 tons of rye.) Cullum named some of the combine's members: the Washington lobbyist for one of Chicago's grain speculators, a U.S. Senator, an ECA official and his wife, two staffers of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...department has taken no action on Cullum's information. Columnist Drew Pearson has charged that the same combine offered a $1,000,000 bribe to an Agriculture official who was eased out last spring. Last week, one more Agriculture official was fired, another suspended for unannounced reasons.But the whole story probably would never be known, unless Congress dredges out the facts...
...John Jacob Astor and Mrs. Elizabeth Cullum, a granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton...
...horses were whistled up from the pasture last week and slipped back into heavy-duty harness. To World War I's heroic Sergeants Alvin Cullum York and Samuel Woodfill went commissions as majors for active service with Army ground forces on infantry problems...