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...Hennings subcommittee, which investigated him in 1951-52, Chadwick read the extensive correspondence to and from Joe. Time after time, the subcommittee invited McCarthy to appear before it; time after time, Joe refused, accusing the subcommittee of such things as "picking the pockets of the taxpayers and turning the loot over to the Democratic National Committee." lawyer Williams argued that, even if the charge were true, it does not now constitute grounds for censuring McCarthy. Said Chairman Watkins: "We do not agree with you. And that is obvious, or we would not have the charges before us at this time...
Darkened Doorstep. In Miami, Mrs. Lois Brown turned husband Albert in to the police for burglary, explained that he had repeatedly ignored her rule against bringing his stolen loot into their home...
...President's share, his Agriculture Minister, holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy, explained to a friend: "Arbenz gave his Communist pals 10,000 quetzales apiece before he quit, but he did not even tell us he was going to resign." Arbenz probably took most of the loot into the Mexican embassy. Now his problem is to get away with it. Even if he gets a safe-conduct out of the country, the new government, under the rules of asylum, could search his baggage and seize any boodle. But a diplomatic cut of the loot to the right hands might...
...from Bride & Groom, from This Is Your Life. Frenetic Bert Parks tries to make all these elements stick together by bringing onstage a devoted couple and then surrounding them with assorted friends and relatives who give the lowdown on the romance and answer quiz questions to help pile up loot for the lovebirds...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rhumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...