Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsman refuse to identify confidential sources of his information about a crime? Long tradition says he should. But legally-except in twelve states that have laws reinforcing the tradition-he has no more right than any other citizen to withhold information. In Fort Worth last week, William Prescott Allen, 60, publisher of the Laredo, Texas Times (circ. 15,283), faced the choice of revealing sources or going to jail...
...campaign blasting Texas as "the most corrupt state in the nation," Publisher Allen charged that corruption flourished in Fort Worth under a syndicate headed by a Dallas state law enforcement officer (whom he did not name). The editorial said that an estimated 1,500 pinball machines in Fort Worth were operating without paying the $250 annual state tax, but did kick back $10 a week to the syndicate. It also charged that an unidentified politician had said "he only takes his cut because he wants to be in the race for lieutenant governor...
Last week a Fort Worth grand jury summoned Allen to tell where he got his information. Allen refused to tell. He was taken into court. Judge Dave McGee held him in contempt, fined him $100 and sentenced him to jail until he was ready to talk. As he turned in his neat business suit for striped dungarees, Allen said defiantly: "To expose some of this crookedness, it's worth the price. I will stay here for life if necessary...
Last night, Council President Edward M. Abramson '57, in an effort to mediate the petition before it reaches the Council meeting Monday, effected a partial agreement between Leyland, James N. Perlstein '57, present president of the HSMR, and R. Allen Williams '57, past president of the HSMR...
George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary of State, affirmed that the strongest appeal to the foreign service official is "the very type of work that he does." Allen enumerated varying experiences, security, good retirement, and salary compensations, as a few of the advantages available to the diplomat...