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...President of these United States, for "intellectual exertion and faith in the electorate's judgement." Does this mean that you also accept Col. Avery and what is left of what Kelly Nash rot? Do you also accept Wilson Wyatt for his utter failure in his management of the Lustron Corp. where millions of tax money was wasted? . . . Do you join the A.D.A. government by pink-minded men? Harry Truman gave his shoes to Adlai but refuses to take his own feet out. He claims all improvement and inventions for the past 20 years...
Some may say that a political novice is what the nation needs for a change. But what do these people say about the General's glowing support for the reelection of men like McCarthy, who has not only been financially unethical--witness the Lustron case and his tax troubles--but morally dishonest as well? What kind of president do they think Eisenhower will be if he permits the likes of Jenner to vilify those things and those people he considers sacrosanct? The General has strained the theory of political unity to the point of dissolution when he makes such rapprochements...
Byers told a bankruptcy court that the Senator had lost $5,500 shooting craps with the witness' son, Bob Jr., but had brazenly welshed on the debt. He also said that he helped McCarthy write the famed pamphlet on housing regulations for which Lustron Corp., a now defunct outfit which set RFC back $37.5 million, paid the Senator $10,000. McCarthy never coughed up a cent of that, either, said Byers...
...know Rex C. Jacobs, the Detroit auto-parts character, whose firm got an RFC loan and who was selected to survey the colossally unprofitable RFC client, the Lustron Corp.? Yes, he had visited at Jacobs' Florida ranch three times, but "I never discussed business...
...Lustron needed was a change in management-just about the time that an engineering firm reported officially that Lustron was hopeless and should be foreclosed. Next, Dunham heard a report that a "grab" of Lustron had been plotted at a house party at Jacobs' Florida ranch. Among the guests: Mr. & Mrs. Dawson, Merl Young and his wife Lauretta, the mink-coated White House secretary. Said Dunham: "Out of this Lustron matter came my first feeling of doubt . . . Shortly thereafter, it became apparent that my old 'friends' had cooled. They dropped me." "They" included Donald Dawson...