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This conversation supposedly took place between Alfred B. Cenedella, the District Attorney of Worcester, and John S. Derham, an Uxbridge lawyer. When it was reported to a crime investigating group last summer by Cenedella, it started one of the biggest graft investigations in Massachusetts history...
...headlines, the Post ran this vague story, "A prominent state detective's report is in the possession of one of the state's highest officials charging that one of the Commonwealth's top officials, evidently in collusion with courts of equal importance is involved knee deep in racketeering, graft, corruption, and police protection in a certain section of Massachusetts...
...Truman came away from the Florida sunshine into the blackest cloud of murk that has risen over Washington in many a year. Day after day, revelations of corruption in his Administration are piling up, amid indications that the scandals may grow to outstrip Teapot Dome. In political urgency, the graft scandals overshadow the Korean truce talks and the confused debate over U.S. mobilization...
...political stature," said he, "has been sadly impaired by a succession of diplomatic blunders abroad and reckless spendthrift aims at home . . . There is a growing anxiety in the American home as disclosures reveal graft and corruption over a broad front in our public service. Those charged with its stewardship seem either apathetic, indifferent, or in seeming condonation . . . Despite failures in leadership, [the people] have it in their power ... to reject the socialist policies covertly and by devious means being forced upon us, to stamp out Communist influence which has played so ill-famed a part in the past misdirection...
...hurry. They were answering a "mandate that literally screams for action"--they were doing something about the Communist Menace in Massachusetts. The Legislature set up a Committee to Curb Communism and gave it the task of finding the best anti-red legislation in the country and a way to graft it onto Massachusetts law. Meanwhile, Representative Paul A. McCarthy and Court Clerk Thomas H. Dorgan could not wait for such a study; they presented two bills to the General Court just before the 1950 legislative session came...