INVESTIGATIONS: No Roman Holiday

Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson dutifully published more names of would-be or could-be profiteers in the U.S. commodity markets. Last week's list (his 20th) had 738 traders with one trait in common: all had past or present connections with the Government.

There were some old and some new faces. Among the old ones were Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas (who had admitted commodity holdings but had never been officially named before) and wife Edith (who was a veteran of Anderson's lists by now). Among the new ones: Ambassador to Argentina James Bruce; Winthrop Brown, chief of the State Department's Division of...

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