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...revenue, who was convicted more than a year ago of accepting a $7,500 bribe (TIME. Feb. 4, 1952). Delaney was in court because of evidence that had been dug up by the Providence Journal and Bulletin's Reporter John Strohmeyer, who thereby helped touch off the nationwide cleanup in the internal revenue bureau. But the U.S. court of appeals set aside the first conviction and ordered a retrial mainly on the ground that the press furor prevented a fair trial. Reporter Strohmeyer had no intention of letting the case die, kept hammering away. Last week, before the second...
...blacklisted authors are Communists like Howard Fast, who writes propaganda novels; others are Communists whose works are not party propaganda, e.g., Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. Some were by notably non-Communist authors whose works or opinions had apparently annoyed somebody (in a similar shelf cleanup in Bombay, books by Bert Andrews, Clarence Streit and Walter White were removed...
...close to the edge of genuine apoplexy. But Ryan did not repent. He testified that he had not purged his union of racketeers, and (although 60% of its organizers have criminal records) acted as though he had none at all to purge. He said the A.F.L. had extended its cleanup deadline to May 15, but he showed no signs of planning any purges in the future (which made a showdown over the I.L.A. almost inevitable at the next meeting of the A.F.L. Executive Council...
Harold Adonis skipped the country, but Stamler indicted him anyhow. Shortly thereafter, Special Prosecutor Stamler was fired by Attorney General Parsons for "insubordination." This caused even more uproar than Stamler's cleanup. The legislature launched an investigation into the affair, after Stamler shouted from the rooftops that he had really been axed for breathing too hotly on G.O.P. Governor Alfred E. Driscoll's administration. Last week, while questioning New Jersey's (just retired) Republican state chairman, a prosperous, churchgoing real-estate executive named John J. Dickerson, the legislators cut into a thick, salty vein of untapped political...
Captain Russ Johnson will hit in the cleanup slot, playing at first. Walt Greeley will start at second, and Ed Krinsky and Tim Wise, both recovered from previous leg injuries, will open at short and third respectively. Dick Clasby is scheduled to start behind the plate...