Word: whitewashing
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...Boland who said: "When I see girders that snap off like pretzels. I know something is wrong." Last week on motion of Congressman McClintic, no longer a committeeman. the Akron quiz was taken away from Naval Affairs and given to a joint Senate-&-House committee "that won't whitewash the Navy...
...that Chancellor von Papen acted unconstitutionally when he, acting under a decree of President von Hindenburg, suppressed the elected Gov ernment of Prussia and replaced it by an appointed Federal Commissioner (TIME, Aug. I). Obviously this suit, which the Supreme Court is expected to decide this week, will either whitewash Herren von Hindenburg and von Papen or brand them as Constitution-breakers in the eyes of German voters...
...Attorney General could find "no merit or substance" to the accusations made by Ralph S. Kelley, resigned field chief of the general land office at Denver, in a series of 14 long, legalistic articles in the New York World (TIME, Oct. 13). Declared Field Chief Kelley: "A ridiculous whitewash!" Generally anticipated was a Senate investigation of the Kelley charges this winter...
...Senatorial investigators disbanded quickly, Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, most active inquisitor, sailing for Europe, without indicating whether or not they would make a report on this investigation of the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration. If a report is made, the tenor of the final hearings last week indicated it will whitewash the U.S. administrators, as they have been whitewashed since the official days of the late Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley (see pg. 32), and it will recommend increased appropriation for Administration work. The Pharmacopoeia specifications for standard ergot extract may be changed. A committee has already started work on the eleventh...
...Kreger insinuates that the editorial already mentioned was "a partisan attempt to 'whitewash' the acts of the demised, but not lamented, rowing committee." The writer of the editorial had never discussed, directly or indirectly, with anyone who had ever served on the rowing committee, the subject of graduate interference, and no one who has ever been a member of the committee knew about the editorial until it was printed. If there was any whitewashing, no one ever connected with the rowing committee asked to have it done. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...