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...lowly paper-folder on the House office staff (salary: $4,000 a year) who had been eased onto the payroll by Pennsylvania's late, sympathetic Democrat Herman Eberharter. With little ado, the committee decided that the nation could henceforth do without the services of brassy John Maragon, 65, onetime Kansas City bootblack, who connived his way to a reputation as one of the Truman era's sleaziest five-percenters...
...World War II stint in the Navy he got the job of chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee, then headed by Michigan Republican Homer Ferguson. As a result of his committee work, Army General Benny Meyers was packed off to jail, and so was Five-Percenter John Maragon, in an investigation that unlocked the door to the Truman Administration scandals. He also opened the investigating book on the Commerce Department's William Remington, who was sent to jail for lying about passing secret information to Soviet Spy Elizabeth Bentley. So scrupulously did Rogers keep politics...
...Received, from a Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency (Estes Kefauver, chairman), a report declaring that violent movies are potential "triggers" for juvenile delinquency. ¶ Learned, to its general surprise, that John Maragon, a crony of Harry Truman's cronies who was convicted of perjury in 1951 in connection with the influence-peddling scandals (TIME, Aug. 15, 1949 et seq.), went to work last week as a $1.61-an-hour laborer in the House of Representatives' folding room, where printed matter is made ready for mailing. Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Herman P. Eberharter said that he had written...
McCarthy began the week by summoning Utah's Arthur Watkins to appear before the Permanent Investigating Subcommittee. (Among the handful of spectators in the hearing room were Five-Percenter John Maragon. a strong McCarthyite, and Professional Demagogue from Army Secretary Robert Stevens, naming 30 officers involved in the Peress case. Scoffed Joe: "I am afraid we are wasting the time of the Senate if that is all the information you have." Said Watkins: "I do not believe you could ever be satisfied unless you can find somebody that ought to be shot or hung...
...some 3,500 of them-gathered for a rally in what one of them referred to as the "so-called Constitutional Hall." Tickets were labeled "Admit One Anti-Communist." On hand were South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, the hapless chairman of the Army-McCarthy hearings; John Maragon, convicted five-percenter, sporting an "I'm for Joe" button; Columnist Westbrook Pegler; and New York's ex-Congressman Ham Fish and Montana's ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler, relics of another age. Throughout the rally, the vice commander of the Wall Street American Legion auxiliary proudly...