Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Longtime Communist Ben Gold, 55, president of the Fur & Leather Workers Union, was found guilty by a Federal Court jury in Washington last week of making false statements to a Government agency. His crime: filing a Taft-Hartley law non-Communist affidavit on Aug. 30, 1950, a few days after "fraudulently" announcing his resignation from the party...
...judges and six jurors considered the evidence briefly and returned their verdict: not guilty. Presiding Judge Fritz Eickhoff explained that the officers actually responsible for the crime were long since dead and that the defendants them selves had acted under orders. "Because of their scant formal education," he concluded, "the defendants failed to realize that they committed a misdeed...
...TIME is somewhat different from the career she had originally planned. In the seventh grade at Larchmont, N.Y. she decided to become a police reporter. She joined TIME in 1946 after editorial and production jobs on industrial trade magazines. By then her interests had veered from crime to finance, and she was hired as a researcher for the Business section. Says she: "I remember my first story conference all too vividly. Everybody spoke in code: '. . . The CAB is going to do this . . . T.W.A. and Pan Am are going to do that . . . The SEC is due to announce . . . The SCOTUS...
...Crime and Peter Chambers (Tues. 9:35 p.m., NBC). New mystery series, with Dane Clark...
...Boston. In Chicago, Howey became city editor of the Tribune at 25, editor of the Hearst Her aid-Examiner ten years later. Ignoring events outside Chicago, Editor Howey concentrated on local mayhem and scandal, paid police-switchboard operators to tip him off on the latest crime, delighted in planting fake stories in opposition newspapers. In Boston, a mellowed top Hearst executive, he took time off to develop an automatic photoengraving machine (1931), a "soundphoto" system of transmitting photographs by wire...