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Department of Justice hired Crouch as a consultant and expert witness on Communism. Since then he has been a witness in dozens of Smith Act trials, deportation cases, grand-jury investigations and congressional hearings. In two years he has been paid $9,675 in witness fees...
...month, in Alabama's Democratic primary for attorney general. Reporter Simms sniffed a good story in his routine chore. And last week his careful tabulations paid off in a story as big as the election itself. After checking A.P.'s tabulations against the official count, a Birmingham grand jury indicted two men for vote fraud...
After hearing testimony from Simms and his day editor, Stanley Atkins, who had also seen the altered vote sheets, the grand jury indicted two pro-Porter politicos: Russell County Solicitor Arch Ferrell (who said he was innocent), and Chairman Lamar Reid of Jefferson County's Democratic Executive Committee (who would make no statement...
Plenty of Trouble. One of the first troubles Stoddard had to face was a scandal involving the selection of the school system's telephone operators. In 1950 a grand jury began investigating charges that the operators' examinations were "rigged" to discriminate against Jews and Negroes. Though this investigation was eventually dropped, the board was soon faced with even graver charges involving its awarding of school contracts. The result: four of its members were either defeated in elections or removed from office...
Salon info Saloon. Desperate Scenery is as far from Paris Original as a saloon is from a salon. It is the seventh volume in a series called Items on the Grand Account, 63-year-old Elliot Paul's leisurely recital of his life and times. Paul was 19 and bumming through the Far West on close to his last dime in the summer of 1910, when the Jackson Lake Dam, spanning the Snake River in northwest Wyoming, went out. With an engineering brother in the family and some previous surveying experience of his own, Paul found it easy...