Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-two men are currently on trial in New York for "conspiring to obstruct justice" by concealing the purpose of their 1957 "underworld convention" at Apalachin. By the normal standards of American morality, the majority of them are undesirable creatures, suspected, and possibly guilty, of assorted crimes from murder on down the scale of turpitude to petty larceny...
Organized crime, regrettably, is often efficient enough to avoid prosecution when it does something significantly heinous. It would be nice if big-time criminals could be locked up just because everyone knew they were big-time criminals. The Anglo-American legal system, however, doesn't work that way. But, if the "conspiracy to obstruct justice" charge sticks, maybe it does...
Attacking the issue of Federal aid, it continues, "We find it necessary to affirm our belief in the desirability and, indeed, the absolute necessity of Federal aid to American higher education." The objectionable provisions in the NDEA, the report points out, are not "inevitable concomitants of Federal monies...
Both the oath and affidavit requirements, however, are "intrinsically objectionable," according to the committee. "A requirement of belief or conviction . . .," the report states, "must clearly conflict with the tradition of intellectual non-interference which has been the precious possession of American universities...
...apparently believes in a guilty-until-proved-innocent policy. It is frightening, regardless of how the game Twenty One was played, that an organization with such power in choosing vast quantities of ideas to be presented on TV to the American people can practice such an un-American ideal...