Word: garssons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Howes Meade, genial 34-year-old Republican attorney from Kentucky's mine-pocked Seventh District, where he soundly beat ailing Military Affairs Chairman Andy May, once the miners' darling, but reduced to political silence since the Garsson investigation...
...When the Senate War Investigating Committee set off its explosion of scandals about the Garsson brothers' string of 4.2 mortar-shell factories (TIME, July 15, et seq.), it also touched off a series of reports that many hundreds of U.S. soldiers had been killed or maimed by defective mortars...
...George Garsson was found dead in a Manhattan hotel room under circumstances that pointed to suicide. He had just lost a lot of money in a nightclub venture recommended by Murray Garsson...
...extraordinary story of the Garssons was far from complete. Murray Garsson, resting in Havana, would add nothing to it other than sobbing cries of "unfairness . . . persecution." Henry Garsson, busy in Chicago, held hard to his constitutional rights against testifying. Andy May, back in his old Kentucky home, was reportedly a very sick man. To most U.S. citizens it was not so amazing that one high-placed man had engaged in deep connivance with the Garssons. The extraordinary thing about the unsavory mess was the fact that so many high-placed Army officers and Administration leaders had so easily fallen into...
...Also among Garsson's friends: an ex-convict named Benjamin Franklin Fields, who had blossomed prosperously as a Washington public relations man. Fields was accused by Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, a Mead Committee member as having offered him $5,000 (as a campaign contribution) to soft-pedal the Garsson case...