Word: garrsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigation into World War II profiteering, the Senate's Mead Committee began beating the bushes and flushed game all over the field. Prize exhibits from the first week's walk through the underbrush was a pair of brothers named Murray W. and Dr. Henry M. Garrson, who had gone into war contract work with less than a shoestring, come out with a fortune. Flushed with them, if not actually part of the herd, was a U.S. Congressman...
...Murray Garrson was the kind of character an investigating committee likes to find. According to the F.B.I, he was once tied up in New York's brewery trade with gangsters Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden. He had twice gone through bankruptcy, had been arrested on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to grand larceny, but never served a sentence. Brother Henry Garrson had an impressive array of engineering degrees and a spotless record as an engineering consultant. But he had been indicted, tried and acquitted on a charge of pocketing a $5,000 bribe while working as an Internal Revenue...
When war came the Garrson boys were ready with a good scheme for quick-&-easy profits. With no assets except a borrowed letterhead they established the Erie Basin Metal Products Co. Then they grabbed a $3,000,000 contract from the Chemical Warfare Service to produce mortar shells, and went to town...
...until the Government began renegotiation of war contracts did the Garrsons find themselves in trouble. Then Federal auditors uncovered overcharges of as much as $600,000 on a single million-dollar cash claim against the Government. Other investigators found evidence of powerful political pressures that had helped out the Garrson combine...
...Something Sinister." That was the tallyho. Squarely in the middle of the field as the Mead pack took out after the Garrsons was the baldpated, leaden-hued figure of Andrew Jackson May, veteran (15 years) Congressman from Kentucky and long-time chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Witness after witness took the stand to testify that he had worked hard to help the Garrsons. He had introduced Henry Garrson to Ordnance Chief Major General Levin H. Campbell Jr.* He had arranged to unfreeze Garrson funds which were blocked by the Government pending renegotiation. He had prodded the WMC into...
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