Word: whitewashed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Attorney General could find "no merit or substance" to the accusations made by Ralph S. Kelley, resigned field chief of the general land office at Denver, in a series of 14 long, legalistic articles in the New York World (TIME, Oct. 13). Declared Field Chief Kelley: "A ridiculous whitewash!" Generally anticipated was a Senate investigation of the Kelley charges this winter...
...Senatorial investigators disbanded quickly, Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, most active inquisitor, sailing for Europe, without indicating whether or not they would make a report on this investigation of the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration. If a report is made, the tenor of the final hearings last week indicated it will whitewash the U.S. administrators, as they have been whitewashed since the official days of the late Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley (see pg. 32), and it will recommend increased appropriation for Administration work. The Pharmacopoeia specifications for standard ergot extract may be changed. A committee has already started work on the eleventh...
...Kreger insinuates that the editorial already mentioned was "a partisan attempt to 'whitewash' the acts of the demised, but not lamented, rowing committee." The writer of the editorial had never discussed, directly or indirectly, with anyone who had ever served on the rowing committee, the subject of graduate interference, and no one who has ever been a member of the committee knew about the editorial until it was printed. If there was any whitewashing, no one ever connected with the rowing committee asked to have it done. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...