Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caught in the eavesdropping act: Jack Anderson, a legman for Newspeeper Columnist Drew Pearson, and Baron (name, not title) Ignatius Shacklette, chief investigator for the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight and a veteran congressional shamus. Next day the House subcommittee fired Shacklette (but Pearson kept Anderson on, saying: "I need him"). Then, the Goldfine entourage, hastened by a belated report from Goldfine's secretary, Mildred Paperman, that her room had been rifled of important documents, moved out of the Sheraton-Carlton amid much tub-thumping and hoopla, took up new quarters across K Street in 19 rooms...
From two days of testimony before the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight last week emerged the two faces of Bernard Goldfine. The first face, carefully shaped by lawyers and flacks (see box next page), was that of a humble, eager-to-please immigrant who had come to wealth and awakened astonished one day to find his name "in the newspapers all over America because of gifts and hospitality to a friend of almost 20 years." The second Goldfine told more about how he had become a millionaire in Massachusetts' tough, no-quarter textile and real estate world; that...
...Adams' faith in Textile and Real Estate Millionaire Goldfine, Adams' friend and benefactor. That done, the Administration was stuck with whatever Goldfine might really turn out to be. What Bernard Goldfine turned out to be in his testimony last week before the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (see Investigations) was a cheap and devious character-a fast man with a buck, whether to manipulate the financial fortunes of his numerous mills and real estate holdings or to distribute gifts to public employees, mostly little, who might do him some good in his chronic run-ins with Government...
PRINTED in block letters with bright red grease pencil at the top of the first page of the statement read last week by Bernard Goldfine to the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight were the encouraging words "YOU WILL BE GREAT!!" Author of the inspirational message: Manhattan Pressagent (and TV Performer) John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary Jr. Coauthor: Washington Lawyer Roger Robb If nothing else, the words reminded Goldfine that he had behind him one of the gaudiest retinues of lawyers and flacks in the whole history of congressional investigations. This is how the retinue operated - and what...
Last week's star witness before the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight investigating the relationship between Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams and Massachusetts Tycoon Bernard Goldfine: Boston Financier John...