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When a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter dug up a copy of the letter, he dropped in at the White House for a comment. From Harry Truman's office came the rare authorization for a direct presidential quotation: "I didn't know anything about the letter, and if I had known about it, I would have stopped it from being sent...
...retainer to Boyle's ex-partner, Max Siskind. The payments to Boyle had totalled only $1,250. The payments to Siskind, to date, had totalled $14,000 and Siskind admitted that he has done only about five minutes' work for Lithofold in 28 months. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch charged that Bill Boyle got a total of $8,000 from Lithofold, instead of the $1,250 he swears to. Last week the P-D's Lithofold expert, Reporter Ted Link, followed Boyle to the stand and stood firmly on the $8,000. One of his anonymous sources...
Although Democratic Chairman William Boyle Jr. avowed that everything was on the up & up, some inexplicable coincidences, like burrs, were sticking to his well-tailored trouser legs. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, with its nose close to the ground, spotted them and pointed them out last week...
...April 1949, when Boyle began drawing a salary from the national party, he had his name dropped from the Lithofold payroll. Last week his office said that Boyle got $1,500 out of his brief formal connection with Lithofold. (The Post-Dispatch said it was $8,000.) After Boyle's withdrawal, Max Siskind, his law partner, was put on the Lithofold payroll instead. Siskind has collected $13,000, is still collecting...
...Tactical Air Command, fought a bitter and losing battle. When Tactical Air was abolished as a separate command in 1948, impulsive "Pete" Quesada put in for retirement. He was independently well-to-do and married to the daughter of wealthy Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But the Air Force persuaded him to stay on to take charge of the Eniwetok atomic tests...