Word: flagrante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setbacks with some typical explanations. The Democrats had left his subcommittee, he said, because they feared to join the other members in exposing the "graft and corruption" of the Truman Administration. He added that criticism of his chief investigator, 26-year-old Roy Cohn, was the "most flagrant, most shameful example of anti-Semitism I ever...
McCarthy's investigators found that, since the beginning of the Korean war, some 450 Western-flag vessels have made 2,000 trips to Chinese ports. Exactly what they carried is anybody's guess. There have been some flagrant examples, however, of traffic in strategic materials. Several ships, after delivering U.S. cargoes of Mutual Security Agency material to Formosa, on later voyages transported oil to China. The most damaging series of shipments is the traffic in natural rubber now going on between Ceylon and China. In return for rice, Ceylon has agreed to send the Chinese 50,000 tons...
Wire to "Arthur Lawson." Wechsler charged that the closed hearing was "a flagrant attack on free newspapers." The books, he said, "were just a flimsy pretext for a full-fledged investigation of the Post" and members of its staff, and he demanded that the testimony be made public. But McCarthy refused to do so unless Wechsler "completed his testimony," i.e., made a list of the others who were active in the Young Communist League with him. Wechsler agreed to list them, because "I do not propose to let you distort or obscure the clear-cut issue of freedom...
Said the Louisville Courier-Journal in an editorial: A "clear attempt to silence press criticism [was] launched this week . . . The hearing was, of course, a flagrant and cynical attempt to frighten more timid newspapers ... It did not intimidate Mr. Wechsler . . . But it will undoubtedly warn off other papers who might shrink from a brawl with low-blow Joe . . . We heartily endorse Mr. Wechsler's own demand that the American Society of Newspaper Editors study the transcript of this bullying private hearing...
...Scalping really isn't a worry, except at big games," Lunden said. "With this plan, I think we can insure that any flagrant violations will be caught...