Word: strobel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service Peter Strobel resigned in 1955 after charges that he had used his position to promote business for his New York engineering firm...
...Strobel's boss, General Services Administrator Edmund Mansure, resigned under Administration pressure after charges that he had helped give a $40,000 insurance contract at the U.S. Government's nickel plant in Nicaro, Cuba to an old Chicago political crony, William J. Balmer...
...Misconduct in government." G.O.P. National Chairman Wes Roberts, Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott and Public Buildings Service Commissioner Peter Strobel were allowed to resign voluntarily, with honor, after they were involved in "three notable instances of misconduct...
...After Strobel was through testifying, GSA Chief Mansure told newsmen that he would let Strobel resign. Said Mansure: "Strobel has done nothing really wrong, but he just didn't use good judgment." He added that Strobel had not only put off signing the GSA's standard no conflict-of-interest pledge for half a year, but that it also took months to get a list of his firm's clients...
...Snapped Strobel, who has been fighting with Mansure over GSA procedures: "I didn't want anybody snooping around my private business. Besides, I had other things to do. I was working 12 hours a day. If they want to get rid of me, they'll have to fire me. I'm not the kind of man who runs...