Word: whitewashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of the Civil War or even of Grant's campaigns, Ulysses S. Grant is an avowedly partisan attempt to paint Grant with whitewash bright and glistening. Biographer McCormick lays it on thick but his able brushwork does bring out the sturdy lines of his hero's dingy figure. Grant, like his 15-year senior, Lee, served in the Mexican War, but his no less brilliant accomplishments were overlooked, says McCormick. Shortly afterward he resigned from the army, under the accusation of intoxication while paying off troops. His belligerent biographer does not admit the truth of the charge...
Coal & Coke, Next day another New York State Supreme Court Justice, also in Manhattan, saved NRA from a whitewash score for the week by forbidding a coal company to sell fuel below the price set by code authorities...
...Olson. The House, topheavy with Langermen, quickly met and organized, but the Senate was stalled by the lack of quorum. William Langer appeared before the House, cried "I am still your Governor," invited its members to start impeachment proceedings against him-proceedings that were certain to end in a whitewash. The House promptly obeyed, 63-10-9. Later the House was expected to impeach Ole Olson, this time in all seriousness...
...House investigation of Navy aircraft purchases, which resulted in a virtual whitewash...
...holding company. The Governor demanded a sweeping investigation not only of suspicious relations between public officials and public utilities but of New York's whole huge utility business. Mr. Thayer introduced a resolution calling for his own investigation. With this investigation promising to be a whitewash and his own inquiry sidetracked, the Governor grew indignant. His attorney general curtly refused to serve as inquisitor for a State Senate committee whose powers were narrowly circumscribed by the Thayer resolution. In desperation the State Senate wired Ferdinand Pecora. The counsel to the U. S. Senate Banking & Currency Committee was too busy...