Word: whitewash
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...House investigation of Navy aircraft purchases, which resulted in a virtual whitewash...
...holding company. The Governor demanded a sweeping investigation not only of suspicious relations between public officials and public utilities but of New York's whole huge utility business. Mr. Thayer introduced a resolution calling for his own investigation. With this investigation promising to be a whitewash and his own inquiry sidetracked, the Governor grew indignant. His attorney general curtly refused to serve as inquisitor for a State Senate committee whose powers were narrowly circumscribed by the Thayer resolution. In desperation the State Senate wired Ferdinand Pecora. The counsel to the U. S. Senate Banking & Currency Committee was too busy...
...Ashikaga, though he promulgated an admirable list of moral precepts, the Ashikaga Law Code, Japanese text books and histories still reserve the place of ''blackest traitor in the history of the Empire." In 1924 Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, potent ironmonger and merchant with a scholarly flair, attempted to whitewash Traitor Takauji in a magazine article, praising him as a vanquisher of despots and a lawgiver and concluded by renaming him Japan's Oliver Cromwell. Few took notice of Ironmonger Nakajima's article. Last week Baron Nakajima, now Minister of Commerce and Industry, woke one morning to find...
...process each once ran foul of his State's governor. President Suzzallo's feud with Washington's Hartley cost him his job (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). The Iowa legislative committee which in 1931 investigated the State university on charges of maladministration gave President Jessup a thorough whitewash. More than adequate balm for his political wounds came to Henry Suzzallo in 1930 when he was handed a front-rank post in U. S. education - the presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He kept it until his death last September. Last week in Iowa City...
...Valentine's Day closing; and 3) "most powerfully am I urged to conclude that the Government would not permit an insolvent bank to operate in fraud of its citizens, and I am constrained to find that the two national banks . . . were solvent." It was a thorough whitewash of Detroit's banks & bankers...