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...rest of the world has ever completely achieved this equality. In the U.S., the status of the Negro and the poverty of the South constitute the worst violations of historic U.S. principles. In the rest of the world, racial discrimination and the poverty of backward countries indict the weakness of the white man's works...
Result: last week Flynn and Betty's three young men were charged with statutory rape by Los Angeles District Attorney John F. Dockweiler. A grand jury had already refused to indict...
...iron & steel men took one look at the Post story, blew up. In groups and singly, dozens walked in to Reese Taylor and tossed resignations on his desk. They were in revolt. Taylor could not answer their angry argument that discipline was impossible if any WPB hireling could publicly indict everybody else. Taylor, too, was sore. He stomped off to Nelson...
Grubbing in the lowest strata of the "vermin" press, Attorney General Francis Biddle presented his much-laden findings to a Washington grand jury, last week got the jury to indict 27 men and one woman for conspiracy to promote revolt and disloyalty among members of the U.S. armed forces. Rounded up for a trial this autumn were some of the country's best-known and loudest rabble-rousers, anti-Semites, Anglophobes, Roosevelt-haters, defeatists, Axis agents and just plain crackpots...
...Meaney, henchman of New Jersey's strident Boss Frank Hague (TIME, May 18). Only there was no question. In the Senatorial gentlemen's club, there was no chance of blocking the appointment, and old George Norris knew it. Nevertheless Norris rose to speak his mind: to indict political machines such as Hague's and political deals like the Meaney affair...