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...Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, leaned forward in his chair, draping himself over his desk. Newsmen tensed, ready to spring for the nearest telephones. By that moment last week it was clear that Talbott had misused his position as Secretary of the Air Force to solicit business for Paul B. Mulligan & Co., the Manhattan clerical-efficiency firm in which he was a partner. Almost everyone in the subcommittee's hearing room thought that he was about to resign from the Air Force. Talbott resigned, all right-from Mulligan...
...Goodness, Forget It." Harold Talbott had admitted using official Air Force stationery to drum up business for Mulligan & Co. (TIME, August 1), but he could see no wrong in this, even though some of the companies to which he wrote had defense contracts. He did not even see any wrong in his dealings with the Radio Corporation of America. Repeatedly and emphatically, he denied that he kept on trying to talk R.C.A. (which does vast amounts of work for the Air Force) into signing up with Mulligan, that he continued even after R.C.A. raised questions as to the legality...
Among the witnesses was stocky, crisp-talking Samuel E. Ewing, general attorney for R.C.A.'s manufacturing and services divisions. He told of a meeting early last December with Talbott's partner, Efficiency Expert Paul B. Mulligan, to discuss the possibility of an R.C.A.-Mulligan contract. Said Ewing: "I endeavored to explain to Mr. Mulligan the problems that we saw in the situation ... He said that he was no lawyer and he did not want to get into that with me. He asked if I objected if he called Secretary Talbott. I said I did not object...
...dying man muttered and closed his eyes in trusting contentment. Ned Harrigan's fans were no less staunch. A copy editor for the New York Telegraph added this personal postscript to a news column on Harrigan: "I'd rather hear Ned Harrigan sing one verse of the Mulligan Guards than Caruso warble his entire repertoire." Harrigan and Hart the merry partners, were the ruling entertainment team of the New York stage from 1871 through 1885. Declared a New England guide book of the period: "A visit to New York would be as incomplete to the countryman...
Most popular of all were the plays about the Mulligan Guards, broad satirical spoofs on the pseudo-military, semipolitical marching companies of the period, formed by immigrant groups who were blackballed from the snobbish regular militia. The hero, Dan Mulligan played by Harrigan, had two mottoes: "Erin Go Bragh" and "E Pluribus Unum " He was so Irish that he thought Lafayette's real name was Lafferty, and so American that he razed a Sixth Ward barber pole because it was painted in the colors of a German flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. For the rest, Harrigan...