Word: meade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Congressman Sabath to the Mead Committee: "I found him to be a very capable fellow. Oh, he's a wonder...
...Also among Garsson's friends: an ex-convict named Benjamin Franklin Fields, who had blossomed prosperously as a Washington public relations man. Fields was accused by Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, a Mead Committee member as having offered him $5,000 (as a campaign contribution) to soft-pedal the Garsson case...
...head of the Senate's dirt-moving Mead Committee, New York's tall, toothy Democratic Senator James M. Mead was providing a dual service for his party-whether it liked it or not. He was giving himself a hastily assembled reputation as a guardian of political morals, a device which might well be useful when he ran against ex-gangbuster Tom Dewey in New York's gubernatorial race. He was also giving Democrats the chance to say "we policed ourselves" in the event the country went Republican next autumn. Having tossed Andy May's reputation into...
...hearing went on it became even more obvious that it could accomplish nothing, in any practical sense. The statute of limitations had run: even if a crime had been committed nobody involved could be indicted. When the Congressman had been well mussed Mead called a halt...
Coffee's acceptance of the check might be "morally wrong," said Investigator Mead, but the Government "did not lose any money...