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...probe and prosecution, a Democratic version of the Republicans' famed Teapot Dome inquiry. Last week the job turned out to be far less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson and former American Bar Association head, Cody Fowler), the chore was accepted by Newbold Morris, a blueblood reformist Republican from Manhattan...
...Earl J. McGrath, Commissioner of Education, said that both "aptitude and means" tests would determine the stipends of the selected students which would not exceed $800 a year. The youths would choose their own colleges...
...McGrath stressed that there would be no federal control, but rather that each state would determine the details of the tests and would dole out the money...
...Aniline subsidiary) and Jack Frye, for example, were far less than their predecessors got when the companies were in private hands. Aniline's legal fees had also been smaller under OAP. Aniline and Schering hadn't yet been sold to the public, explained Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, because of "complex corporate problems" and "protracted litigation" (which in Schering's case ended almost three years...
...McGrath assured Senator Wiley that Schering would be put up for public sale next month. But what was the hurry anyway? Under OAP control, Aniline's sales had more than doubled (to $99 million last year), and assets of both companies had soared...