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...more outspoken-and articulate-than most. At the National Press Club in Washington last month, Neilan said that the U.S. has its own scandal to match Britain's Christine Keeler case: a "se duction by subsidy" in which more and more Congressmen are turning into bagmen for constituents, bringing home pork barrel programs and federal handouts in return for votes...
...handed over in 1949 to avert a threatened strike of Teamster truck drivers. Committee investigators had scraped up some persuasive evidence that at least $10,000 of the payoff had found its way to Jimmy Hoffa. Under questioning, Hoffa conceded that he got $10,000 in "loans" from the bagmen who collected from the laundrymen. but beyond that, his memory failed him. He could not recall any details about repaying the loans, nor could he produce any records to prove that he did repay them...
...paints a picture of sweltering heat, disease, fever, and death in the midst of a polyglot community of picturesque but unattractive traders (and scoundrels), ignorant and unpleasant savages, and an anomalous horde of half-castes, to say nothing of his pet aversions, the Presbyterian missionaries and the "Orstrylyun" bagmen. There is more of Somerset Maugham than...