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Convinced he had picked up a forger's scent, Noble made tests to determine the specific gravity of the horse, found it was too low for solid bronze but about right if the statue had a sand core, held in place by iron wire and tacks-which is how French bronze statues in the 1920s were cast. Ordinary X-ray equipment would not penetrate deeply enough to show the interior of the sculpture. But on Sept. 15, Noble, using equipment developed to inspect the six-inch-thick steel hulls of nuclear submarines, was able to have a gamma...
...Forger & Thief." Although numerous other accusations of peculation and improper use of his office have been made against Dodd, the Stennis committee based its formal recommendation for censure on two charges: that Dodd billed both the Senate and private groups for the same travel expenses, and that he wrongfully appropriated to his personal use at least $116,083 from political campaign funds...
...contended that if he had wanted to cheat in this manner, he could have done so on a grand scale rather than take merely $1,700 over five years. It was all O'Hare's fault for sloppy bookkeeping, Dodd argued, calling him "a liar and a forger and a thief." Moreover, Dodd declared, if the Senate really believed one of its members guilty of larceny, it should expel him outright rather than censure him. It was a shrewd challenge. At week's end the Senate agreed to vote separately on the billing and campaign-fund counts...
...case. Harlan pointed out that the Post had faced no deadline in preparing the "fix" article. Yet despite a denial from Butts, the magazine had taken not even the most elementary steps to verify its story. The original source had been an Atlanta insurance salesman and convict ed check forger, George Burnett, who was accidentally plugged into a phone call between Butts and Bryant. No Post reporter even looked at Burnett's notes of the conversation before the article was published. Nor did anyone interview a man who was in the room with Burnett during the call. No attempt...
...asked at the hearing, if Dodd had really understood the money in the testimonial accounts to be his as a gift-and not a political contribution-why had he carefully avoided writing personal checks against it? Attacking O'Hare's testimony, Sonnett implied that he was a forger, brought in Handwriting Expert Charles Appel, who had testified in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, to show that a number of checks drawn on the ac count had not been signed by Dodd. The Senator himself, otherwise apathetic, was roused to his only really angry outburst of the week...