Pearson, Drew

Altogether, there wasn t much more evidence than Bernstein had turned up two years before. There had been thousands of forced laborers working in the Farben plants yet here there wasn t a single statement from any of them to pin responsibility for their plight on any Farben director. Also puzzling was the absence of direct evidence about the Farben buna plant at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The "album of dedication" which Major Tilley had found at Geheimrat Schmitz s house had disappeared. Two weeks before, Drew Pearson, at my request, had advertised over the radio for its return. His appeal had got no response. I exclaimed "Farben must have kept some records at the Auschwitz site."... 

Sayers remained at the Bureau of Mines until a new interior secretary replaced him in 1947. While still in office as a lame duck, and (according to the syndicated newspaper columnist Drew Pearson) without checking with his superiors, Sayers sent Lewis a letter that the Mine Workers president used to justify a national coal strike.37 A few months later, he was rewarded by Lewis with the position of chairman of the medical board of the union s newly established health plan, which in the following years resisted recognition of black lung disease.38... 

Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home national register nomination Drew Pearson... 

Drew Pearson syndicated column, March 14, 1949 Cloud, Royd Ray Sayers Derickson, BlackLung, pp. 115-119, 124-126. 

Drew Pearson, Wallace s mental record, Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard, Oct. 16, 1968, p. 11. 

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