December 21, 1933, will be remembered as a day of reckoning in the corridors of power in Washington D.C. It was on this fateful day that the National Whirligig News broke a story that would shake the very foundations of the Roosevelt administration. A shocking exposé revealed that a high-ranking official at the Department of Commerce had been caught red-handed in a brazen scheme to use government resources for personal gain.
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Key Facts
- State: National
- Category: Public Corruption
- Era: Historical
- Source: Library of Congress — Chronicling America ↗
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