Word: matte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic National Committee's Bill Boyle-who resigned as national chairman after the fact became known. From American Lithofold came expensive cameras as "gifts" to Turney Gratz, an RFC official who became one of Boyle's top national committee aides. Assistant RFC Loan Manager Frank Prince and Matt Connelly. Other evidence showed that White House Personnel Aide Donald Dawson, one of the subjects of a Senate Committee report (which Harry Truman denounced as "asinine"), had exercised a marvelous influence over RFC. A fascinating note of the investigation: Dawson had spent more than 20 rent-free days...
...Department. On every television screen was the smiling face of Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, whose barefoot wit kept investigators in convulsions as he blandly described rascality (including his own) in government. Not until this year did Caudle get his comeuppance: along with Matt Connelly he was convicted of tax fraud conspiracy...
...Navy Cross and a living legend of the corps. He barked that the Marines' only mission is "success in battle," added that if "we are to win the next war," the nation's youth must get a lot more of the kind of training that Matt McKeon had tried to give Recruit Platoon 71 at Parris Island. Both he and General Pate, Puller roared, "agree and regret that this man was ever ordered to trial...
Respectful but not intimidated, the seven court-martial officers took seven hours to find Matt McKeon guilty of drinking in barracks and simple negligence in the six deaths. But they cleared him of the more serious charges of "oppression" and culpable negligence. McKeon, the court found, was not drunk the night of the march, nor had he been criminally negligent. McKeon, Zuke Berman, the prosecution and the press took the verdict as clear evidence of a Pate-weight sentence to come. Then, next day, came the stunning blow...
What the Secretary of the Navy and the review board must now decide is whether Matt McKeon has been punished for the bad judgment that was peculiarly his, or whether he is paying the price for a timehonored, sometimes brutal but consistently effective system of military training...