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...government was ready to talk. Defense Minister Brooke Claxton led off in a coast-to-coast broadcast. Said he: "We are working out with other free nations plans for joint defense based on self-help and mutual aid." Three days later, External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson had his piece ready...
...That Harkins backs to a few years ago when we had to Gruber victory from a Pearson defeat," replied his disciple, Palin slightly...
Last week the Justice Department acted-but it acted against Investigator Thomas. A Federal Grand Jury in Washington began looking into charges, repeatedly printed by Columnist Drew Pearson, that Congressman Thomas had padded his office payroll with the names of several people who did no work and who kicked back to him all or part of their salaries. Attorney General Tom Clark's lawyers proceeded under a statute which makes it a criminal offense to issue false statements to the Government. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine...
Also Anatole Holt, Gerard C. Iarrelli, Paul Kaufman, Donald Kennedy, Jerrold B. Lanes, David Lattimore, John C. MacDonald, Christopher Martin, Irvan T. O'Connell, Charles C. Carbone, Hewitt Panteleoni, John S. Pearson, Jr., Charles C. Poor III; Isaac Thomas, Jr., and David F. Williams...
...Knew Too Much." The coroner called Porter's death suicide, but next day Columnist Pearson hinted that it might have been murder. The circumstances, he said darkly, "are strange indeed, including the fact that Porter jumped-or was pushed-through a window screen. This is not an ordinary act of suicide." Pearson said Porter had told him that certain people had been trying to force him to return to Scotland (he was a British subject), because "apparently some people believed he knew too much." Porter had told some friends of attempts to blackmail him, and he was sure...