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...most memorable things that President Truman did at last week's press conference was to put his foot in Attorney General J. Howard McGrath's mouth...
...days before Truman's conference, McGrath took the witness chair before the House subcommittee investigating the Internal Revenue Bureau'scandals. He was there because so many of the trails followed by the subcommittee had led to Theron Lamar Caudle. As head of the Justice Department's tax division, Caudle was one of McGrath's top assistants until Harry Truman fired him last month. The committee had gone through Caudle's close social and business relationships with ex-convicts, influence peddlers and defendants in Government tax cases...
...Hollow Sound. Their heads spinning from the dizzy course of the testimony, subcommittee members asked the Justice Department to find out who was lying in the Teitelbaum case. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath ordered a grand jury investigation into all aspects of the case, not just the perjury question. Then, in an impassioned speech before the Federal Bar Association (Government lawyers and other attorneys who practice before federal agencies), he defended the honor of the U.S. Government's lawyers. He pinned on the first lapel button in the association's membership campaign, and said in a quivering voice...
After the week's testimony, the Attorney General's stirring words had a hollow sound. Wildly tangled as they were, the scandal trails kept leading right back to the door of Theron Lamar Caudle, who was one of McGrath's well-beloved top assistants until a few weeks...
...every 20 students in American colleges, universities, and graduate and professional schools can get financial aid, Earl J. McGrath announced in a report published by the Office of Education at Washington last night...