Word: frame-up
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Padillistas cried that it was all a frame-up to take the public's mind off the vote-counting frauds of which the opposition have complained...
When the McNamara brothers, one an A.F. of L. union official, were arrested for the dynamiting, it was called a "frame-up." When, after months of agitation, the McNamaras confessed to the crime, the U.S. labor movement swallowed one of its bitterest pills...
...indicted and convicted on a charge of conspiracy to murder the engineer. The trial had some curious aspects: the judge was an old friend of Warren's; the deputy district attorney who tried the case became heavily indebted to one of the jurors. Labor and many liberals cried "frame-up"; labor unions surrounded the courthouse daily with 1,000 pickets. The three unioneers were subsequently pardoned by Governor Culbert Olson. Labor has never completely forgiven Earl Warren...
Eberhart-Random House ($2). A series of murders near a Florida Army camp spells trouble for pretty, young Vicky Steane. But an Army-officer detective puts a stop to the frame-up of Miss Steane, and brings an intricately plotted and turbulent tale to a clinch conclusion that will satisfy readers who like their romance and mystery adroitly mixed...
...last week the "frame-up" showed signs of blasting Georgia's prison system out of its antiquated, sadistic, scandal-ridden past. Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall, trying hard to erase the black marks of the Talmadge regime, turned the Cartersville investigation into a study of all State prisons. First step: suspension of Warden Clay and Guard Bryant. Second: a tour by legislative leaders, to learn what other State prison systems had been up to since Oglethorpe first brought his oppressed debtors to the New World...