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...contended that the boy had stabbed his victim in the back, and asked the death penalty. Jenkins proved that the white man was the aggressor, that he suddenly turned his back to get another weapon just as the fatal blow struck. The jury took only a few minutes to acquit...
Bergson denied that he had ever passed on the U.S. Pipe Line request, but his chief defense was that "claims" against the Government under the law could involve only money or property. Judge Charles F. McLaughlin agreed and, since he directed the jury to acquit Bergson, the Government cannot appeal. Any other interpretation, said the judge, "would lead to absurd results," and he took the occasion to lecture Government attorneys that the legal interpretation of criminal laws is "not a game to be played." Brownell, who feels that there is an ethical consideration as well, announced that he would...
...indict cigarette smoking, and acquit the smoking of pipes and cigars? Because the cancer-causing factor apparently must be retained deep in the lungs, a condition usually found in cigarette smokers, who inhale deeply, not in pipe and cigar smokers, who seldom inhale. ¶ Why does lung cancer concentrate on men in middle life? Because the cancer-causing factor seems to be a slow-acting agent, which may need half an individual's normal life span to do its deadly work. ¶ If cigarette tar contains a cancer-causing agent, why don't all cigarette smokers get lung...
...Force denied that this caused the cancellation, but nobody believed it. The Air Force, fighting to restore some of the cuts in its 1954 budget, obviously wanted to drop an operation criticized as wasteful. Henry Kaiser and Edgar had done their best, before the hearings broke up. to acquit K-F of this charge. In a 22-page prepared statement, and an 88-page memorandum passed out to the press, they detailed Kaiser-Frazer's tribulations...
...said: 'Congratulations! You are now Vice President . . .' He 'resigned' after he was informed that if he didn't, Winchell . . . would force his resignation . . ." Added Winchell: "[Lyons] has written letters about me (now in my possession) that would win a libel suit and acquit me in a minute if I pushed him in front of a speeding truck...