Word: confess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Gestapo agents searched his sister's home in Stuttgart and found pieces of clocks and two chisels with traces of plaster on them which exactly matched the plaster of the Bürgerbräu Keller, Elser decided to confess everything...
...solve the case by strong-arm methods. To ask that the President declare now whether he will or will not run again, said he, is as crude as the third degree; in fact, it is "no more than a blunt demand that Mr. Roosevelt give himself up and confess." Nor did Detective Lippmann have much esteem for the political sleuths who have followed President Roosevelt's actions, studied his speeches, questioned his associates, interviewed his followers, looked for clues at press conferences. "Mr. Roosevelt," he observed, "is too smart to leave fingerprints and tell-tale cigaret butts around...
...recent opinion of the Supreme Court that one of the recent appointees of that court has expressly said that the court has been reconstructed and the fair implication, as I read it, is that precedents may be of little avail, and their lack no bar. I must confess that at the end of 17 years on the bench I find less certainty in the law today than at any time. . . . The question of law is one which it seems to me that a trial judge in the present conditions and the present environment . . . should not condemn...
...right. A. F. of L. and C. I. O., concluding their respective conventions in Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had fattened on the Wagner Act; neither was ready to go all the way back to Sam Gompers and confess that what ailed them was an overdose of law. Both blamed the National Labor Relations Board for their gripes, each complained that craven administrators had favored the other. But angry John Lewis and his delegates came close to admitting that they knew the cause of the Labor pangs...
...Nazi gold or just for the heck of it remains as mysterious as where their bombs come from. With the help of three Spanish-American War cronies, World War veterans, other hastily mobilized vigilantes, the Major drags his suspects before a kangaroo court in the plane plant, makes them confess...