Big Harold Stassen, whose muckrake started the investigation of speculators inside the Government (TIME, Dec. 22), was given the stage and the spotlight by the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. Amidst considerable hubbub (cameramen literally fell over each other) and sharp political jabbing. Presidential Candidate Stassen let fly. He charged that:
¶ Ed Pauley (who had said he 18st $100,000 in paper profits) had made more than $1,000,000 in commodities, and had failed to tell all to the committee.*
¶ Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, had "not told the truth" when he said he "lost his...
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