Word: meade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Kentucky's trap-jawed Congressman stubbornly ignored all invitations to testify before the Senate's Mead Committee, a whole array of Congressmen and Senators trooped in to explain how their names had popped up in the investigation of the Garsson munitions combine. In a matter of minutes Mead Committeemen examined and exonerated House Majority Leader John McCormack, Rules Committee Chairman Adolph Sabath, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley...
Said Senator Mead: "Nothing more need be said. . . . Unless Congressman May appears before the committee the public will have to draw their own conclusions." But hard-to-get Andy May was still avoiding commitments. For the time being, he said, he was too busy with his duties as House Military Affairs chairman; maybe he would be able to make it later...
...stung into action, Minor Statesman May protested that everything he had done had been "for the benefit of my constituents and the war effort and of course I did not profit in any way or respect." A little more to the point was a sharp reminder to Committee Chairman Mead that Andy May had testified before a closed committee last month...
...Something Sinister." That was the tallyho. Squarely in the middle of the field as the Mead pack took out after the Garrsons was the baldpated, leaden-hued figure of Andrew Jackson May, veteran (15 years) Congressman from Kentucky and long-time chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Witness after witness took the stand to testify that he had worked hard to help the Garrsons. He had introduced Henry Garrson to Ordnance Chief Major General Levin H. Campbell Jr.* He had arranged to unfreeze Garrson funds which were blocked by the Government pending renegotiation. He had prodded the WMC into...
When Senator Mead countered by releasing the testimony (which he called "wholly inadequate") angry Andy May took to the House floor to restate his case. He insisted there was nothing shady about Cumberland Lumber, denied that he had endorsed its checks as president, despite photographic evidence to the contrary. He was just trying to help some "small business concerns" get along...