Word: engels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert J. Engel, Michigan's jar-shaped Congressman who loves to investigate on his own, was sure he had something last week. He dug up the incomes-private and public-of Anna Marie Rosenberg...
...regional director of the Social Security Board, Mrs. Rosenberg makes $7,500 a year. On the side, Congressman Engel discovered, she makes $28,500. He wondered how she could make that much at outside jobs and still give the Government 100% of her time. He asked...
...Engel wanted to know what service the Mirandas & Zelcer could render to justify the payment of such commissions, which must ultimately be added to the taxpayers' bill...
Stockholders grew curious, too. One of them sued the directors and officers of Brewster, charging that the Mirandas dominated Brewster and got "excessive commissions." Congressman Engel asked the Vinson Naval Affairs Committee to investigate. But the Navy, also impatient, moved in first...
...said that the Miranda setup had anything to do with the Navy's seizure. But chunky Mr. Engel, who loves to lay bricks, knows that bricks that are piled carelessly atop one another will finally collapse. Around Washington this week ran the rumor that Brewster, first plant to be seized for other than labor troubles, might not be the last. The military had a cold eye on other plants where bricks were piled too high...