Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only natural that memories of "the Kingfish" should crowd into the hotel room, given the victorious occasion and the company. Around Earl sat some of Huey's old associates: former Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), who went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud; Robert S. Maestri, mayor of a graft-ridden New Orleans for ten years, until ousted by a reform candidate in 1946; George Reyer, Maestri's police superintendent; and Abe L. Shushan, former president of the levee board, who also went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud. Earl began to reminisce...
...pique Earl Long. One dramatic day Earl walked out on Huey, letting it be known that he, Earl, had fought Huey's childhood fistfights for him. Earl screeched, "Big-bellied coward!" Earl later confronted Huey, face distorted and arms flailing, during a U.S. Senate hearing on election fraud. When Earl intimated that Huey was susceptible to graft, Huey raged at Earl: "Listen to that! Liar Earl Long!" But Earl shouted back: "I stood with you as long as I could, but you run wild...
...shocked that the Secretary of State is willing to play Russian roulette with the life of our nation ... On too many occasions the Republican Administration has acted unilaterally without adequate regard for our allies." Senator Hubert Humphrey made three formal statements in which he accused Dulles of "hocuspocus . . . fraud . . . callousness toward world opinion." The New York Times's James Reston concluded: "Mr. Dulles has added something new to the art of diplomatic blundering. This is the planned mistake. He doesn't stumble into booby traps: he digs them to size, studies them carefully, and then jumps...
Specifically, the Government noted, Lev managed to grab and hold for himself a $2,040,204.97 contract (for white sailor hats) the Navy wanted to split up, and apparently used $213,924 to buy favors for Government officials. The Senate subcommittee turned its evidence "of fraud, bribery and perjury" over to Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., asked him to prosecute Lev and try to get back some $450,000 Lev owes the Government for deviating from his contracts...
...election year it is perhaps unrealistic to ask a Congressional committee to frame constructive legislation. Yet the country may at least hope that the Joint Committee investigating the alleged fraud of the Al Serena Mines will eventually tire of exchanging the traditional partisan accusations of "smear" and "collusion." Perhaps it could then consider legislation of long-range concern for all Americans. The Committee might determine just why public land laws must continue to undermine the Forest Service's conservation program by allowing "mining companies"--real or contrived--to devastate our forest heartlands...