National Affairs: Coldwater & Flynn

Three weeks ago the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee began to hunt for crumbs of scandal in the U. S.'s Big Three shipbuilding companies—New York, Newport News and Bethlehem. But no crumb tickled the stout palate of the U. S. public until the Committee found the names of two of Wall Street's biggest bear speculators, of an ex-heavyweight champion, of the right-hand man of a famed promoter all nicely linked together with Edward J. Flynn who, next to Boss Farley, was henchman since times far back of 1932.

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