'NEED NOT BE HONEST.'
Revelation of Witness at U.S. Shipping Inquiry. OCEAN MAIL SUBSIDIES. (Received 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 8. Benjamin A. Harnett testified before tho Senate's Ocean Mail Investigating Committee yesterday that he was discharged from the position of operating manager of the Black Diamond Line after he had refused to approve an "extra labour" item for Steve O'Connor, who also was employed by the line and whom he identified as a son of the then chairman of the Shipping Board.
"Witness said: "I was told I need not lean backward and be honest."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 238, 9 October 1933, Page 7
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