Word: pawtucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This scrutiny of Hurley and Heller centered around their connection with the Narragansett Machine Co. of Pawtucket, R.I. - Hurley as a $12,000-a-year vice president, Heller as the Army finance officer who had arranged a $2,000,000 Government-guaranteed loan for the financially queasy company, and a loan renewal (TIME, Dec. 4). Heller, who denied knowing Hurley at the time, had a War Department official and an Army colonel testify to his honesty in the deals. Such testimony seemed enough for the Senators...
Other Varsity men who will see action for the Crimson this winter are forwards Gerry Johnson of Newburyport High and the NROTC; Brewster Wolfe of Milton Academy and Lowell House; Jack Noble of Exeter and the V-12; Ronald Wright of Pawtucket High and the V-12; guards Clyde Kelsey. Jr., of Wadena High, Minnesota and the NROTC; and Herb Fritts, of Richmond Hill, New York and the NROTC
Some Senators promptly recalled a House Military Affairs Committee investigation last year into war contracts and $4,000,000 in Government-guaranteed loans given the Narragansett Machine Co. of Pawtucket, R.I. The committee had wondered why Hurley, as vice president, had been paid $12,000 a year when he spent "as little as one day a week" at the plant, had no set duties. Coupled with this was the fact, suspicious to the committee, that Hurley got the job just before a $2,000,000 loan and just after several million dollars in war contracts had gone to the company...
...first major scandal to besmirch a big-time war producer hit the headlines just over a year ago (TIME, Jan. 4, 1943). In Fort Wayne, Ind., and Pawtucket, R.I., the Anaconda Wire & Cable Co.* was indicted for deliberately delivering to Russia and to the U.S. Army Signal Corps equipment dangerously below standard. Last June the Fort Wayne case wound up with the maximum fine ($10,000 and costs) for Anaconda Wire, lesser fines for five officials and suspended jail sentences for three of them...
Knifing through the water like a fish, the well-built Pawtucket star, heralded last year as the best scholastic prospect in the nation, nosed out Big John Eusden, who gave his all, in the excellent time of 23.9 seconds. John Watkins was third...