Word: indicters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely exonerated when all the facts are presented." The packers thought that Clark would have trouble making his charges stick. Eleven times in 50 years the Government had sued the big packers; it had won only twice. A year ago a federal grand jury in Chicago failed to indict the packers on an antitrust conspiracy after an investigation requested by Clark...
...Happy Ending? Speaking for the whole industry, MGM's Dore Schary, formerly Mitchum's boss at RKO, pleaded with the public not to "indict the entire working personnel of 32,000 well-disciplined and clean-living American citizens." A widespread use of narcotics in the industry? "Shocking, capricious and untrue...
...papers. His transactions since the day he became Army assistant had been only those incident to the "orderly liquidation" of his holdings. Cried Pauley: "I have been seriously and perhaps irreparably harmed by Mr. Stassen's falsehoods and unfounded charges. . . . He has combined ignorance and falsehood to indict me solely in pursuit of his own selfish ambitions...
...problems of 1947, of the soul as well as of the mind, were bigger than the abilities of the writers who grappled with them. It was fashionable to indict writers for this condition, but how just was the indictment...
Thomas Mann, the greatest living German writer, is examining Germany's war guilt. He can do what neither Edmund Burke nor Nürnberg's Robert H. Jackson dared-indict a whole people. The evil that lay beneath the Wehrmacht, and the Nazi Party, and the factories, endures. The victors, who underestimated and misunderstood the evil, cannot extirpate it by battle, or military rule or reparations, or trial & punishment. They cannot even limit it until they understand it. So Thomas Mann, now a U.S. citizen, has written of "Germany and the Germans," in the current Yale Review...