HISTORICAL NOTES: Total Politician

Crusty old (77) Jesse Jones had no reason to be surprised that the influence boys have been working on the RFC. During the twelve turbulent years that Jones supervised the open-handed Government corporation, politicians from President Roosevelt down continually eyed the jam pot. In a book published this week (Fifty Billion Dollars, Macmillan; $6), Jones takes this and many another angry cut at the Administration of which he was a part and at the President under whom he served.

Private Smoosh. Every now & then, says the ex-chairman, there were around the RFC "meddlers wanting to muscle in for a little...

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