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This very same form of legalized larceny was perpetrated in Greece in April 1922. I was an accountant in Athens at the time. It may interest Indonesian Finance Minister Sjafrud-din Prawiranegara to know that Greek Finance Minister Protopapadakes, who put this smart idea across, was effectively cut in half by an ingeniously simple machine gun, along with the rest of the Greek cabinet, some six months later...
...din of table-pounding, the battle of the files went on. The Democrats were not going to let McCarthy get a look at the files if they could help it; they demanded to hear his charges and his proof. Most of his accusations seemed to be a rehash of an old list of 108 names, dredged up in 1947 by the House Appropriations Committee. Since then, presumably, all had been rescreened by the State Deparment's security board (headed by Republican Conrad Snow) or the President's Loyalty Review Board (headed by Republican Seth Richardson...
Both horses ran easily as the field broke into the din at the start: Citation just off the pace, Noor far back in the ruck. The real battle started at the mile and a half. Citation moved into the lead with a rush and Noor, skirting the flying ribbon of color on the rail, came up from behind and closed for the final duel. Noor was first as they headed for home. Then Citation came up again; for second after aching second, they ran shoulder to shoulder, wild and even as a runaway team, while the stands and infield erupted...
...Din of Dissent. At first the vast, unorganized army of commuters and travelers reacted with the numbed resignation of men & women who knew the 2Oth Century has its inescapable hazards. But soon the stirrings of dissent rose above the jumble of raspy music and unctuous plugs...
Hisses and catcalls from the Communist claque in the spectators' gallery drowned out the rest of Kostov's statement. When the din had subsided, Kostov's lawyer apologized for "defending" him, and called for the maximum penalty. A lawyer, he said, should not try to help a guilty client: "In a Socialist state there is no division of duty between the judge, prosecutor and defense counsel." Next day the court found Kostov guilty of treason and sentenced him to the gallows; his ten codefendants, all of whom had pliantly "confessed" and testified against Kostov, got off with...