Word: frame-up
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...expect they need kicking sometimes but I don't do it and I don't want my men to do it. ... I have been just as good as possible in the chain gang. . . . It's all a frame-up. There ain't nothing...
James and John McNamara were ar rested. Labor organized in their defense, $250,000 was raised, charges of frame-up roared through innumerable demonstrations, Clarence Darrow was rushed to Los Angeles to defend them, Muckraker Lincoln Steffens busied himself trying to work out a compromise. Suddenly, on Dec. 1, 1911, James McNamara confessed. It was the greatest moral shock in U. S. labor history. A thin-faced, impassioned man, with intense blue eyes and a Theodore Roosevelt mustache, McNamara told reporters: "They say I will swing for this, but if I swing it will be for a principle...
...Capital's National Press Club. On hand were most of the U. S. Senate, about half of the House, three members of the Cabinet and most of Washington's 509 correspondents. They had heard about this story of a rather sappy young idealist, who in defeating a frame-up to oust him from the Senate, exposes one U. S. Senator as corrupt, others as unimaginative, hard-boiled professional officeholders...
Although the parties of the left have always been known for the bitterness of their quarrels, it has been left to Stalinism to introduce the methods of slander, kidnapping, murder, and frame-up trials. You all know of the Moscow confession trials. . . . Perhaps you know of the slander campaign against John Dewey and other liberal and radical figures for their participation on the Committee for the Rights of Asylum for Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists...
Nachman is sacrificed to the OGPU, Author Singer has long ago sacrificed him as a plausible character. As the last third of the story turns into out & out melodrama, even anti-Communist readers are likely to feel that literature as well as Nachman has been the victim of a frame...