Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired Judge Albert Reeves, 75, mounted the bench, and the crowded courtroom was hushed. "The defendant will rise," intoned the marshal. "What say you, ladies & gentlemen of the jury, as to count one [espionage]?" In a firm voice the foreman replied: "Guilty." And to count two [stealing government documents...
They approached it amidst no new sensational disclosures. Instead, the trial in a Manhattan Federal Court took a quieter, tenser turn. FBI agents, in endless search, had followed countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts...
In the blue-chip game of international oil, Mexican Oil Czar Antonio J. Bermudez thought he had an ace in the hole. Though Mexico had kicked out U.S. oil companies in 1938 and seized their properties, he thought they would crawl back if egged on by the State Department.
Last week Bermúdez' hole card looked more like a trey than an ace. Mexico's oil is not "vital" to U.S. defense, a consultant told the State Department. The consultant was Max W. Ball, a one-time director of the Oil and Gas Division in the...
The Civil Aeronautics Board, which has often cautioned "irregular" airlines against becoming too regular, last week got tough. It ordered California's Standard Air Lines, one of the biggest irregulars, to stop flying by July 20. It also asked the Department of Justice to start criminal proceedings against Standard...