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Half Truths & Whole Truths. There was a good chance last week that this might be the only explanation Congress and the public would ever get. Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, chairman of the subcommittee currently probing the case, appeared to want to be rid of the whole thing. Justice's Mclnerney appeared to be mainly interested in defending the extraordinary performance of the Justice Department. On the Republican side, Congressmen appeared to be more anxious to exploit half truths than to get at whole truths. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, largely responsible for the latest furor...
...time. I read them every morning myself." The visitor answered: "This man Visca you have here has brought lots of bad publicity to Argentina. They say he goes around closing newspapers." Whereupon Perón pressed a button, barked an order through an interoffice microphone: "Get rid of Visca...
...will be so involved in it that we will never be able to terminate it," argued Millikin. "We will have such big payrolls, so many vested interests, so many clerks . . . lawyers . . . consultants . . . commissions . . . joint commissions, that there will be no way in God's world of getting rid of it. The Senator knows that," he mimicked Connally...
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer decided to get rid of two top employees who had become politically embarrassing. Last week he abruptly ordered 32-year-old Economist William Remington and 42-year-old Michael J. Lee, chief of Commerce's Far Eastern division, to quit or be fired. Both men were currently in the middle of new Government checks on their loyalty, and Economist Remington was under investigation by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, but Charles Sawyer said his dismissal notice was "in no wise intended to reflect in any way on the loyalty of either of these...
...Newspapers just have to keep hitting and hitting at these guys if we're going to get rid of them," said Fingold. One of the State's leading racket-busters, he recently testified before a Senate subcommittee on nation-wide crime syndicates...