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According to Green, he and his partners had done nothing outside the law. He was shocked when North Carolina's mild-mannered Congressman Herbert Bonner pointed out a flaw in Green's operations: he had failed to pay a 5% excise tax in his multimillion-dollar operation. The Philippine deal "stinks," said Bonner. It may not be illegal, he added, but it is "morally terrible ... We are in this one to stay for a while...
Last week a special Senate subcommittee gave Merl the Milkman the recognition he deserved. The investigators, led by Senator Fulbright (Dem., Ark.), reported that they had found the RFC's multimillion-dollar operations ridden by "favoritism" and dominated by outsiders wielding undue influence over RFC officials. White House Aide Donald Dawson, a shrewd veteran of 18 years in Washington's bureaucratic jungle was exercising "considerable influence" over certain RFC directors and had "tried to dominate" the agency from his White House perch. But, the Senators added, "the individual named most frequently in the reports of alleged influence...
...week RCA could have hired both men and saved itself many a future headache. Today, Frank Stanton is president of Columbia Broadcasting System and Peter Goldmark is CBS's top color-television engineer. Between them, they have led a series of determined assaults on RCA's vast, multimillion-dollar manufacturing, recording and broadcasting empire, are CBS's top men today in a serious threat to RCA's supremacy in television. Objective of their campaign: to sell the U.S. public CBS's brand of color television...
...Washington, and of the Long dynasty in Baton Rouge. "Longism" had already taxed the poor voter's cigarettes, beer and gasoline to set up a welfare program shot full of politics, he cried. Weren't the Longs paying for Russell's campaign out of a multimillion-dollar highway appropriation? Russell wasn't saying, but shrewdly baited Lafargue into opposing FEPC, in hopes of undercutting the prospective pro-Lafargue Negro vote in New Orleans...
...given the South Koreans proper aid, and he thought Acheson "had better resign." Wherry loudly agreed. Now that the U.S. had decided to protect Formosa, as he had urged, said Taft, he felt vindicated. But Taft said nothing about Senate votes last September and again in May, to authorize multimillion-dollar aid to Korea. Among those who had voted against the bill, both times: Kenneth Wherry and Robert A. Taft...