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...Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (Jan. 13, 1877): "We have not the least objection that rough boys be the heroes of a storybook...
...productions, but they were flops, and life was hard and gritty. Nevertheless, he traveled, met the famous, became well-tailored, suave and bald, and shortened his name to the more fashionable C. Blevins Davis. In 1946, at the age of 45, he married an aging heiress named Marguerite Sawyer Hill, a daughter-in-law of Rail Tycoon (Great Northern) James J. Hill. When she died in 1948, C. Blevins inherited...
ROBERT W. SAWYER Bend...
Secretary Sawyer had been asked for his opinion on a bill Douglas is earnestly trying to write, to set up some kind of ethical standards of conduct in Government. Douglas, though a Democrat, makes no bones of his distaste for recent chapters in Truman Administration history, especially the ones headed Deepfreezes, mink coats and questionable RFC loans. But Secretary Sawyer is unimpressed; a listing of reprehensible practices would have little effect, he said last week. "There are public officials who will not accept a cigar on the theory that they might be compromised. This, it seems to me, indicates...
...adoption of a code of ethics, while harmless, will do but little good. Any man who must look up his code of ethics to find out what is proper or improper for him to do is too innocent to be around Washington." As a matter of fact, Sawyer concluded heavily, if Senators really want to study reprehensible practices in Government, they might start in with congressional committees and their questions, which keep Government officials up late of nights, getting the answers together...