Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professional B. E. F. leaders tut-tutted the Mitchell report, called it a "political alibi." They pointed out that even if 1,069 bonuseers did have police records they were all proved by the Attorney General's own words to be real veterans entitled to the Bonus...
...they had caught the wind in their oar-blades; another slower train, perhaps even a handcar, for the Washington boat which lumbered along to the finish 18 lengths-nearly a quarter-mile-behind, most thoroughly beaten of any Coast crew for 29 years. Disgruntled Washington alumni learned the alibi: the Washington shell was rigged too low for the choppy course. Its seat tracks were awash after the first mile. California won the Olympic Rowing championship in 1928, may well defend it this year...
...from the War Department for the use of pictures from its files illustrating the horrors of war is excellent in its frankness. That General Carrs refusal to acquiesce to the scheme should be based on the preservation of Gold Star Mothers' memories seems, however, a trifle lame as an alibi. Granted that the patriotic side of wars should be preserved, it is still unnecessary, foolish, harmful to prevent the public assimilation of truth. May the book, however grisly, impress citizens who pay millions in taxes for wholesale slaughters past and present, with the necessity for peace and the frightfulness...
...home of a brother. Authorities attached importance to the fact that in his green Chrysler coupe was found an empty milk bottle. From Hartford Henry Johnson was taken to Newark, N. J., further questioned, further held by police on the grounds that there were flaws in his alibi for the night of the abduction...
Collision is adapted from the German by John Anderson, New York Journal theatre critic who revised The Fatal Alibi. His confreres did not fail to flay his present flimsy farce, observing that Critic Anderson would have done likewise...