CRIME: Very Warm for May

No one savored the power of office more than Andrew J. May of Kentucky. As wartime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he reveled in having generals at his beck & call. If a "warm friend" or a good constituent wanted a favor (perhaps a war contract, perhaps a son sent to O.C.S.), Andy would pick up a phone, summon the official to his office, and arrange it on the spot.

But last summer, when the Senate War Investigating Committee began to rummage through the shadowy Garsson munitions empire, it turned up...

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