INVESTIGATIONS: Pattern or Poppycock?

As Harold Stassen bayed excitedly on Speculator Ed Pauley's trail last week, he ran smack into Maryland's lank-cheeked Senator Millard Tydings. Drawing himself up to his full height before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Tydings demanded: "Have you any evidence of any person in Government who has given any inside information to any speculator in any market?" Stassen's answer was a weak "No." He said he was "relying on the pattern of operations rather than any specific evidence."

Angry Twitch. Harold Stassen had come to the hearing primed with fresh charges. While Pauley glowered at him...

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