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...smaller fish was E. Merwyn Rowlands, 50, onetime Wisconsin politico and head of the RFC's Minneapolis branch. The charge: in 1949, Rowlands had picked up an inside tip that the Commodity Credit Corp. was looking for storage space, and told a friend. The friend, one Jule Marachowsky, thereupon leased warehouse space from the Army, cut Rowlands in for a 40% interest. When CCC came shopping, Marachowsky and Rowlands were ready, charged CCC $215,000 for Government space that cost them only $11,500. For the original tip on CCC, said Symington, RFC's Rowlands gave another friend...
...executor of Kelly's will, ex-Sheriff Michael Mulcahy, and Kelly's tax adviser, a onetime city politico named Ed Gorman, pooh-poohed the widow's story. They had gone through the safe and the files in Ed's office only four days after his death, they said, and had found no big bundles of cash...
...Blake. Why, then-Western minds would like to know-doesn't Nehru the moralist make Nehru the leader hang his head in shame? Perhaps he does; but the practical West, which must deal with net results, is necessarily less concerned with Nehru the paradox than with Nehru the politico...
...appointment which came as something of a disappointment to another Kentucky politico. The day of Chapman's death, Baseball Commissioner A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, scheduled to lose his job next year, put in a hurry-up call to the governor's office. The-governor said he was sorry but he had already picked his pinch-hitter...
...rage is usually supplanted by a mood of hilarity and revivified cunning. When the pro-Republican Pittsburgh Press protested that his venal, pompous and reactionary politico, Senator Jack S. Phogbound, was a calculated libel on the reputation of the U.S. Senate, Capp had a soft and devilish answer. He replied that he knew nothing of politics but what he read in the Pittsburgh Press, that Phogbound had been suggested by that newspaper's editorial attacks on Democratic politicians, and that he was not only hurt but genuinely amazed to find the Press damning instead of applauding his creation...