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...Generalissimo Donald performed one service, among many, which no one else had the courage to do. He told Chiang bluntly what was wrong with his government and what should be done about it. He pointed out graft, inefficiency, abuses, and named the men responsible...
Died. James Evans ("Jim") Crown, 71, lusty, blustery, fighting editor of the New Orleans States, who broke the graft story that toppled the Huey Long empire; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A crusader for enforcement of the gambling laws, Jim Crown gave up drinking and smoking, but kept a copy of Racing Form tucked in his office Bible...
Last week there came testimony as to just what a lulu it was. One of two Albany grand juries, launched by Governor Tom Dewey to investigate legislative graft and Albany's corrupt O'Connell machine, reported that in 1943, under the lulu system, legislators and legislative employes had cost the state...
...politicians, Boston's James Michael Curley is perhaps the strongest believer in the maxim that God helps those who help themselves. As onetime mayor of Boston he helped himself to $30,000 of city graft. Nevertheless he became governor of Massachusetts, then U.S. Congressman. Up or down, whether riding the crest of popularity or selling the family silver to meet his debts, Jim Curley has been at the public trough for 44 of his 70 years. Last week he hoped once again to better himself. At the very time when he had been re-elected to Congress...
...Sweeping reforms in the Army, including a thorough cleanup of the graft-rotted conscription system; disbanding of divisions with low morale to provide more equipment and rice for divisions with higher morale; widening the conscription base to include students...