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...farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because he would not resign, charged that the Commerce Department was rife with "serious derelictions . . . scandalous abuses . . . improper graft and favoritism" (TIME, June 24). Again Congress did its inquisitorial duty and the Senate Commerce Committee spent three footling days last week investigating the Mitchell allegations...
With his white beard waggling in emphasis, Exeter's Gascoyne-Cecil graphically described his latest visit to the U. S., urging British Laborites to go and see for themselves how sordid, graft-ridden and enslaved by party machines he found U. S. Democracy. This brought His Lordship to his point, namely, that the House of Lords ought not to pass the India Bill (TIME, June 17) on second reading last week because it may give Indians a modicum of Democracy. "How are you going to void some great political machine's controlling the great masses of India?" cried...
...Roper issued a soapy explanation that an engineer rather than a lawyer was required for the .job. got the President to appoint Engineer John Monroe Johnson from Mr. Roper's own South Carolina as Assistant Secretary. Two days after the ouster Attorney Mitchell charged that. "improper favoritism and graft abound" in the Commerce Department, that "serious derelictions" and "scandalous abuses" in the Steamboat Inspection Service led to such disasters as the burning of the Morro Castle. To prove his pure intentions President Roosevelt had to tell his Attorney General to investigate these charges against his Secretary of Commerce...
...failure in 1925 was the biggest in U. S. history up to that time. Its costly reorganization set new records for fancy fees and drew a scathing dissenting opinion from three U. S. Supreme Court Justices. With Milwaukee's unsavory record fresh in mind, Author John T. Flynn (Graft in Business, Investment Trusts Gone Wrong) caustically observed last week in the New York World-Telegram...
...were at work with me. Instead of idealists, I found men who thought of nothing but of what they could get out of it. I found the same thing both in Russia and in its spying organization. It was riddled with disillusion, self-interest and graft. These people were grabbing big sums for doing practically nothing.* At first I tried to reform them. I still burned with ideals. When Marjory and I were arrested we realized that by telling everything we would be ridding Moscow of men who were nothing but bloodsuckers." Aided by the French...