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Sooner or later, every dollar spent by the U.S. Government must pass the watchful eye of ex-Congressman Lindsay Carter Warren. As the $12,000-a-year Comptroller General of the U.S., Warren has frequently barked an alarm at war contract settlements; he believes that "everybody and his brother were out to get the Government during the lush war years." Last week, Watchdog Warren showed some real bite. In a report to Congress on war contract settlements, he accused federal agencies of "improper payment of many millions of dollars of public funds through fraud, collusion, ignorance, inadvertence or overliberality...
Thomas E. Dewey was called everything from a "haberdasher's dummy" to a "Silas Lapham" at the three meetings here. Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and Sam Beer lashed out at the Republicans at a rally and a debate, while Congressman John F. Kennedy '40 and ex-Congressman Thomas H. Eliot '28 added to the hue and cry in an HLU meeting on the Democratic campaign...
...instant he had finished, Southern leaders were on their feet. Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody offered the South's minority report defining the sovereignty of the states. Two other Southerners, Mississippi's Walter Sillers and Cecil Sims of Tennessee, followed with similar amendments. Cried Sillers: "Give us the right to govern our own fundamental affairs!" Then ex-Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, of Wisconsin, a onetime Socialist who helped manage Norman Thomas' campaign in 1932, a colleague of Humphrey on the platform committee, presented the Northern minority report on civil rights...
...Ex-Congressman Will Rogers Jr. signed up to play his father in a Hollywood biography of Marilyn Miller...
...also indicted) to give false testimony before the Senate War Investigating Committee (TIME, Dec. 1). Ferreting out crime was not the committee's job, but it could now boast of having brought two major war-purchasing scandals to action in criminal courts. Its other case-that of ex-Congressman Andrew May and the Garsson brothers-had resulted in a conviction. The Government's chief crime-detection and prosecuting agency-the Department of Justice-had not done half as well...