Word: slapdown
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Full of modesty and the morale vitamin, Jeff comes home from the wars with a Congressional Medal of Honor, is boomed for the State Senate by his G.I. buddies, gives the "Oak Falls" machine its first lambasting in 20 years. After one slapdown in the Senate he finds his political legs, starts chasing political rats. First rat: the grafting director of a state insane asylum. Next on the fighting Senator's agenda: underpayment of teachers, black-market babies, maladministration of prisons...