Word: indiction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a Cleveland Press photographer violated the court's instructions last month by taking a courtroom picture of a defendant whom the Press had helped indict, Common Pleas Judge Joseph H. Silbert charged the photographer and two other Press staffers with contempt for "transgressing the dignity and honor of the court [TIME, Sept. 7]." Last week, despite the Press's plea that the contempt citation was an infringement of "freedom of the press," Judge Silbert found the three Press staffers guilty, fined them a total of $700 and costs. While the Press prepared to appeal, the paper said...
Justice Douglas in his dissent admitted the Government's contention that it "would have been laughed out of court" if it had attempted to indict and try the Rosenbergs under the 1946 law. Douglas insisted, however, that the sentencing procedure of the 1946 law was the only one that could be applied to the case. He said: "Where two penal statutes may apply . . . the court has no choice but to impose the less harsh sentence . . . I know deep in my heart that I am right...
...State official pointed out yesterday that the attorney general could indict several undergraduate organizations here if he wanted to interpret the law "literally." He would not elaborate...
Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas knows the political risk of discussing racial tension. But last week, after a Cook County grand jury failed to indict Cicero, Ill. race rioters, and indicted instead the lawyer for a Negro mob victim, Douglas spoke a few plain, courageous words...
Eberstadt raced to Forrestal's home in Georgetown and found Forrestal mumbling: "I'm a disgrace to my friends. I have failed. The Department of Justice is going to indict me on Monday." Eberstadt whisked him to Hobe Sound, Fla. in an Air Force Constellation, where Bob Lovett took charge. "They're after me," Forrestal kept repeating. For a few days he swam and sunned himself and seemed to rally. Then one night he scratched his wrist with a razor blade. Psychiatrists ordered him to Bethesda Hospital and there, seven weeks later, he killed himself...