The Truman Committee had its teeth in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and was unwilling to let go. After gnawing at Standard's synthetic-rubber deals. Chairman Harry S. Truman posed with President W. S. Parish mugging through a Standard synthetic tire. Then he took a new bite: at Standard's sales to Lati, the Italian airline which ferried Axis agents and funds between Rome and Brazil.
Standard's Lati sales were roundly damned by the Justice Department's Thurman Arnold and the Commerce Department's William La Varre. Finally came the State Department's Assistant Secretary Adolf A....