Word: illicitness
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...charges that old ex-President Celal Bayar, 77,, sold a state-owned Afghan hound for personal gain did not stand up. An accusation that ex-Premier Menderes had arranged for the murder of his illegitimate child proved false; Menderes admitted readily that he had fathered the child in an illicit affair with an opera singer, but proved he had nothing to do with its death, which seemed to be of natural causes. Charges that Menderes threatened ex-President (and Republican Party leader) Ismet Inonu with assassination could not be substantiated...
...that it might be stirring up a hornets' nest, the commission looked long and hard at the British and Continental European ways of handling addiction. Britain, with almost one-third the population of the U.S., claims to have only 400 to 500 addicts and no problem of an illicit drug trade or larceny or prostitution to finance the habit. In Britain, a physician may prescribe morphine, or even heroin (which no U.S. doctor can prescribe for any purpose), to a thoroughly "hooked" addict, who then gets his shots at a chemist's shop for two shilling...
Latest radio pirate is Radio Nord, an American-owned, 20-kilowatt pirate radio station operating from a converted German freighter named the Bonjour anchored just off Stockholm. After one month of illicit broadcasting into Sweden. Radio Nord is doing a beaming business. Listeners bored with Radio Sweden's staid fare are sending Radio Nord more than 1.ooo fan letters a day, and such companies as Westinghouse, Max Factor, Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord...
Ross maintained that the purpose of the investigation in New York was illicit and in reality an attempt of the Committee to influence a dispute in the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). This argument was ruled out of order, as had been most of Ross's efforts to prove this point to the judge earlier...
Taking the affirmative side of the proposal: "Resolved: That the HUAC should be abolished," HYDC speakers James G. Vaughter '63 and Charles A. Stevenson '63 condemned the Committee as "illicit in its operations, ineffective in holding hearings determine needed legislation, and a source of danger to Constitutional safeguards...