Word: garssons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee who could get him two major generals (Alden H. Waitt and William N. Porter) to gambol at his daughter's wedding party, could get Army-Navy "E" awards for his munitions plants, and could give and carry orders that Garsson's 27-year-old son, Joseph H. ("Bud") Garsson, was to be taken care of and protected in the Army. Along this shadowy trail Murray Garson...
...appointment as a $1-a-year special assistant to Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Labor William N. Doak (after a few months it turned into a $9,000 job). His sponsor: ex-Congressman Samuel Dickstein, now a New York City judge. Garsson's chief interest: high-salaried alien cinema stars who might be proved to be in the country illegally. Among his interests: Gilbert Roland, Anna Sten, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Farrow...
...himself an appointment as an investigator for the House committee inquiring into corporate reorganizations and receiverships. His sponsor: Chicago's Representative Adolph Sabath, now chairman of the House Rules Committee.* Thus Garsson put himself into a spot where he could choose to report on, or not to report on, receivers, bondholders' committees, lawyers and others who profited at the expense of investors...
Paper & Shells. But Murray Garsson's main chance came with the war and with Brother Henry's knowledge. Suave, well-tailored, capable brother Henry had a spotless record as a consulting engineer. His personal record was almost pure-he had been indicted and acquitted of a charge of taking a $5,000 bribe while working for the U.S. as an Internal Revenue agent; he had worked for a time with Murray on Congressman Sabath's investigating committee...
...Henry Garsson is an impressive man. A Jack-of-many-callings, he uses the handle "Doctor" (a doctorate in law from St. Lawrence University) in front of his name. He has called himself an expert on reorganizations. He and Brother Murray, as it turns out, are also experts on organizing large companies out of nothing...