Word: frame-up
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...first trial, held under a change of venue in the little town of Bartow about 48 miles east of Tampa, was a broad education to Northern reporters, particularly representatives of the radical Press. Wires were tapped, rooms searched, frame-up attempted. At least one had the novel experience of being shadowed in his leisure moments by the defendants, who were free on bail. Presiding Judge was Robert T. Dewell, a corpulent Yaleman (Class of 1911), who was overwhelmed with appeals for impartiality from fellow Yalemen in the North. Five defendants were convicted and sentenced for kidnapping...
...Communist ticket, was sought all week by police as the "brains" of a gang of wreckers. Blasts in Canton had ruptured a water main and wrecked a culvert. Into the Warren station to give himself up walked Gus Hall, accusing Republic Steel and its allies of an "unadulterated frame-up." Meantime Republic's plant at Canton where some 2,000 workers had been interned for a month was reopened, and 3,000 of Governor Davey's militia stood by in Cleveland for the reopening of four more Republic plants...
...accepts only what is authoritatively published here and only what has admittedly happened, two conclusions suggest themselves-either the Government and the Communist Party leadership, which in reality are identical, have staged a frame-up on a gigantic scale or there exists a situation of discontent, unrest and active disloyalty in the Stalin regime amounting almost, if not fully, to a counterrevolution...
...frame-up system has been the cornerstone of Soviet 'justice' since the middle of 1918. Trotsky and Radek, Zinoviev and Bukharin helped build...
...reasoning in the libel case which was exquisitely embarrassing to the Tribune. According to Parker, the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of the Tribune's crook-reporter Jake Lingle (who saved up a fortune of $150,000 on a news-hawk's pay) was a frame-up. True it was that a member of the Tribune's law firm was made a special assistant state's attorney to help build the case against Brothers-and this appointment had been made by State's Attorney Swanson, thus presumably obligating the Tribune...