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...days later, the ax fell on one of the RFC men most susceptible to Merl Young's influential ways. William E. Willett, ousted as an RFC director last February, had slipped back on to the Government payroll as an $11,800-a-year "specialist" for Under Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Whitehair. When news of Willett's new job leaked out last week (TIME, Dec. 24), Defense Secretary Robert Lovett (who hadn't been told that Willett was drawing a Government check again) demanded his resignation forthwith...
Comes the Ax. When Bertie dumped his niece, Bazy Miller, as editor last spring and took personal charge of his Washington outpost (TIME, April 16), his new staff gurgled with good cheer. After all, they said, "no matter what you may think of McCormick's policies," he is a good man to work for. Their cheer was shortlived. Instead of pay boosts, there were cost-trimmings and firings. Quick to go were Bazy's pets...
...already shown an enthusiastic talent for his inherited role by hanging tight to the legs of many unwilling clients while his father whacked away at their necks. A temporary headsman was appointed to act as regent until Charlie's arms grew strong enough to swing an ax. By the time he reached h's majority, the Sanson dynasty had become a kind of headsman's peerage. Brother Nicolas became chief executioner at Rheims and was followed by his son. Sister Anne became the progenitress of a long line of executioners at Soissons...
...this left a host of puzzling questions. So did inspection of the rifle, and of an ax used to break open containers of oil. Fingerprints on both were hopelessly smudged. If Adamic had committed suicide, why had he felt it necessary to go to the trouble of burning his house and garage and preparing to burn his barn? Why had he left no note? And how could he have shot himself, then returned the rifle to his lap? But if he had been murdered by someone who set the fires to destroy evidence, why hadn't he resisted while...
Even while Acheson was testifying before a Senate committee, Republicans in the House were hunting him with a legislative ax. The plan, an old one, was to cut him down with a rider attached to the State, Commerce, Justice and Judiciary appropriation bill. The rider provided that no money in the appropriation could be paid to the head of a" department who, in the past five years, had been with a firm which acted for a foreign government. Though it named no names, it was directed solely at Dean Acheson, whose former Washington law firm (Covington & Burling) has represented...