Word: misconducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having already cleared Aluminum Co. of America of maintaining an illegal monopoly (TIME, Oct. 13), Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey last week wiped Alcoa's slate clean of the other Government charges of conspiracy and miscellaneous misconduct. With his marathon ad lib decision completed-it took him ten days to dictate it in open court, covered 680 pages -the longest (April 1937 to last week) lawsuit in U.S. history was over. The 72-year-old judge swiftly left Manhattan for a six-week vacation in Maine...
...each of these twelve groups, Judge Caffey had to rule whether Alcoa 1) possesses a monopoly, 2) conspired to obtain a monopoly, 3) was guilty of other misconduct. At this week's beginning, Judge Caffey had decided Alcoa has no monopoly in any of the twelve fields...
...Plan. Britain's reservoir of man power, he explained, has now run "practically dry," and in order to fill war factories just coming into production, organization and restrictions must be imposed. In vital industries the right to dismiss employes, except for misconduct, will be removed from owners and managers. Employes may no longer leave their jobs without permission. People whom the Government considers to be in nonessential employment will be shifted, and nonessential industries may be temporarily suspended. Britain's women, Bevin declared, will also have to toe whatever line the Government draws, even if it means placing...
Morally, the Belgians were resigned and bitter. They obeyed but did not fraternize with German soldiers. The Nazi soldiers, under strict military orders, committed no outrages; handbills invited Belgians to report misconduct by Germans to the police. As crushing to Belgians as German domination and approaching famine was their complete isolation. Since the day of invasion they had been without postal, telephone or wireless communication. Like the Poles and Czechs, they had dropped out of the world...
...merit system proved itself early in the game. Sandy-haired Tar Heel Herschall Carver, serving a life term, got out of solitary confinement where he had spent most of a year for misconduct, became the orchestra's best musician. Impressed. Warden H. H. Wilson furnished funds for the band instruments, presented Carver with an electric guitar. Drawled Carver: "I ought to learn to play this thing. I've got a lifetime...