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...George Gabrielson, chairman of the Republican National Committee, dropped in to explain why he has been getting paid $25,000 a year for looking after the $18.5 million loans of Carthage Hydrocol, Inc., a Texas corporation which makes petroleum out of natural gas. He is president and counsel of the company, Gabrielson testified, but has never tried to use "influence." He called many times on Republican Harvey J. Gunderson when Gunderson was RFC director in charge of the Carthage Hydrocol loan. He called on RFC's new boss, Stuart Symington, to talk about a delay on the payments...
...exposures were not entirely partisan. Most of the scandals involving Democrats were brought to light by Democratic members of Congress. And it was a Republican Senator who denounced Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson for working on the RFC in an effort to get an $18.5 million loan for Carthage Hydrocol Inc., of which Gabrielson is president and counsel. Welcome as the Gabrielson issue was to the Democrats, it scarcely relieved them of the onus of the Administration scandals...
...week's end, Boyle's opposite number, Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson, was faced with a charge similar to that made against Boyle. Delaware's Republican Senator John Williams said that Gabrielson had been trying to talk the RFC into extending a $18.5 million loan to Carthage Hydrocol Inc., an outfit which makes aviation gasoline from natural gas. Unpaid by the Republicans, Gabrielson was getting $25,000 a year as Hydrocol's president and counsel. Democrats had been tipped off to this juicy item by RFC's Stuart Symington, but the Republicans, stung...
Nevertheless, a G.O.P. ground swell to oust Gabrielson was growing. Many Republicans felt that if the Democrats were to be attacked for corruption, the attacking had better be done by men who did not have to split hairs to clear their own records...
...Republican Party-which has not had a winning campaign slogan since 1946's "Had Enough?"- last week reached back to the 19th Century in search of another. In Elgin, Ill., Republican National Chairman Guy George Gabrielson suggested that in view of the RFC scandal (see Investigations), there was nothing more appropriate for the G.O.P. m 1952 than the phrase used by the Democratic Party in 1884. The slogan: "Throw the Rascals...