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...Javits was the one Republican who could win. Now Javits is running for state attorney general, and Republican Candidate Floyd Cramer has little chance. The Republicans may drop a seat in California's 13th District because of the aroma left behind by G.O.P. Representative Ernest Bramblett, whose salary kickback case is still in the courts.* Pennsylvania's Representative Hugh Scott has won by an eyelash for years, all the time watching helplessly while more and more Democrats move into his district...
This week the crime commission began focusing its attention on some of the less savory tricks of the politico's trade-the buying of judgeships, the salary kickback and the use of party funds as private bank accounts. The commission's shift in emphasis, however, was cold comfort to three-fingered Tommy Luchese. Agents of the FBI, the Internal Revenue Bureau, the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau, the New York state income tax division and the New York state parole board had all started nosing around in Tommy's past, and Attorney General James McGranery...
Swooping Plunge. In the thin, high air (probably close to 80.000 ft.), there is not much kickback in passing the speed of sound. The Skyrocket was designed to minimize transsonic buffeting, and the rockets push it quickly to high supersonic speed...
...scandals of the Harding Administration was in the Office of Alien Property. For accepting a $50,000 kickback on a World War I claim, OAP Custodian Thomas W. (for Woodnutt) Miller was sent to prison. OAP gradually went out of business, was revived in 1942 as a Justice Department division under Democratic Politico Leo Crowley. Since then it has controlled as much as $500 million worth of alien properties seized in World War II, still manages 39 active companies and assets of nearly $300 million...
...Plan E in Cambridge proved a startling success. Cambridge government was no different from Lowell's or Waltham's. It was contented and corrupt when Plan E was adopted; its major had just gone to jail for accepting a 30 percent kickback from an architect who did city work...