Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer decided to get rid of two top employees who had become politically embarrassing. Last week he abruptly ordered 32-year-old Economist William Remington and 42-year-old Michael J. Lee, chief of Commerce's Far Eastern division, to quit or be fired. Both men were currently in the middle of new Government checks on their loyalty, and Economist Remington was under investigation by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, but Charles Sawyer said his dismissal notice was "in no wise intended to reflect in any way on the loyalty of either of these two men." The action had...
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