Word: everette
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second year law student Paul Arnold Nurick '45 hanged himself in his room at 40 Mt. Auburn st. last night. His body was discovered by his roommate, another second year law student. Robinson O. Everett...
Eliot House, with Henry C. Everett '49, paced the dorms. The Law and Business Schools and Radcliffe also contributed. This was the third such drive this year for the 'Cliffe...
Just a Minute, Please. In Gushing, Okla., Mrs. Everett Holland asked the cabdriver who had driven her to Yale Hospital to wait, reappeared two hours later with her newborn...
Candles on the Table. Everett submitted an incredible report (first to the U.S. Supreme Court, then to the U.S. Army), which read like a record of Nazi atrocities. He charged that, to extort confessions, U.S. prosecution teams "had kept the German defendants in dark, solitary confinement at near starvation rations up to six months; had applied various forms of torture, including the driving of burning matches under the prisoners' fingernails; had administered beatings which resulted in broken jaws and arms and permanently injured testicles...
Blot on the Record. Everett was no longer defending the Germans, most of whom he believed guilty; he was defending justice. For two years, at his own expense, Everett pleaded his case. Finally, last July 29, an Army commission under Justice Gordon Simpson of the Texas Supreme Court was set up to review the records.* The commission corroborated Everett concerning the mock trials and did not dispute or deny the rest. General Lucius D. Clay had already commuted the death sentences of 31 of the 43 condemned Germans. In Washington last week the Simpson commission recommended clemency (commutation to life...