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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attorney General J. Howard McGrath last February reluctantly agreed to President Truman's choice of Republican Newbold Morris as a special assistant to the Attorney General to clean up corruption in the Democratic Administration. This week, before a House judiciary subcommittee, McGrath sourly testified that he'd already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: McGrath on Morris | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Reformer Morris had sent long questionnaires to several thousand high Federal officials, asking them about their private finances. The House subcommittee wondered if well-to-do Lawyer McGrath had yet filled out his copy of the questionnaire. Answer: "I haven't decided whether I'll fill it out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: McGrath on Morris | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Rowe was called before the Senate group originally to testify on Owen Lattimore in connection with the Institute of Pacific Relations. He discussed Fairbank only at the suggestion of Robert Morris, subcommittee counsel.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairbank Hits Rowe of Yale For Charges | 3/29/1952 | See Source »

Whatever else it did, the investigation would hurt Morris' effort to get subpoena powers from Congress. He just did not seem to be made for either the giving or receiving end of an investigation. As he himself put it: "I am a queer kind of guy. You probably wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: I Guess I Am a Softy | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

* In trying to minimize the importance of the oil to Red China, Morris erred factually as well as tactically. All the taxicabs in Washington would take about nine months to use 250,000 gallons of lube oil, and the present Chinese Red air force might get along for three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: I Guess I Am a Softy | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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