Word: garssons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convicting ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky was a speedy matter-it took a federal jury less than two hours to find him guilty of taking bribes from wartime Munitions Makers Henry & Murray Garsson and conspiring to defraud the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947 et seq.). But getting Handy Andy to serve his prison sentence of eight months to two years was not so easy...
...public interest would be better served ... by the granting of probation to an old and broken man," said the appeal. The court gave the government a week to reply, and Andy May and the Garsson brothers had won at least one more postponement of their date with the warden...
Waitt had also had a slight brush with trouble in 1946, when he appeared as a witness at the Senate investigation of the war-contracts frauds engineered by the Garsson brothers. General Waitt had enjoyed some of the Garssons' hospitality, danced happily with Murray Garsson's daughter, Natalie...
...testimony before the Senate War Investigating Committee (TIME, Dec. 1). Ferreting out crime was not the committee's job, but it could now boast of having brought two major war-purchasing scandals to action in criminal courts. Its other case-that of ex-Congressman Andrew May and the Garsson brothers-had resulted in a conviction. The Government's chief crime-detection and prosecuting agency-the Department of Justice-had not done half as well...
...Garsson war contracts...