Word: silverman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...players are Grosvenor W. Cooper 2G, Arnold Hartman, Jr. '38, and Leonard Bernstein '39, pianists; Raphael H. Silverman 1G, violin; A. Jan Pieters LaRue '39, clarinet; William P. Lester '38, viola; Chester W. Williams 1G, oboe; and Fred Rogosin '39, baritone...
Last week Joseph Silverman's friend, Colonel McMullen, was tried on four counts, ranging from bribery to acceptance of railroad tickets "wrongfully, dishonorably and to the discredit of the military service." The whole trouble arose over some 700,000 woolen union suits which Silverman bought from the Government for 14½? apiece, contracting to resell them abroad. Later he got his contract changed so he could resell them...
...contracts in question. Both testified that they took full responsibility for the contracts and still regarded them as in the best interests of the Government. Then the Army prosecutor produced two used round-trip railroad tickets to San Francisco which, including Pullman tickets, cost $369.70 and were charged to Silverman's account at the Hotel Mayflower...
Colonel McMullen did not deny he had accepted the tickets from Silverman but declared that he had done so only because his son was seriously ill in San Francisco and because they were in part payment for an automobile he had sold Silverman...
Chief witnesses for the defense were Silverman's onetime potent Washington lawyer-lobbyists: Ralph Thomas O'Neil, onetime (1930-31) National Commander of the American Legion; Robert Jackson of New Hampshire and Arthur Mullen of Nebraska, both Democratic National Committeemen until President Roosevelt objected to mixing politics and lobbying (TIME, Jan. 29; March 26, 1934). All three testified that as representatives of Silverman they had dealt chiefly with the Assistant Secretary of War, had been shown no favors by Colonel McMullen...