Word: myerberg
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...lawyer in the great city of Megapolis, is running for Congress on an independent ticket against both Republican and Democratic machines. By an accident he is elected, finds himself beholden not only to the machine he thought he was fighting but to the racketeering element. His newfound law partner, Myerberg, makes short work of his scruples: "When a reform movement elects one of its members to office, that ends it, there is nothing more for it to do ... the reform has won." Learning every minute. Caridius commutes by plane to his seat in the House, makes valuable new contacts...
...among his Congressional causes is backing a bill (sponsored by a socially ambitious Western lady) to carve the Rocky Mountains into statues. All goes swimmingly until his two principal backers, Racketeer Joe Canarelli and Banker Littenham, fall out. Caridius' naïve distress is as usual allayed by Myerberg's realistic explanation: "That's the trouble with Joe, he expects from other men the same absolute unequivocal performance of their word that he gives to them. That's all right among racketeers, but he doesn't understand that in respectable financial circles any contract...