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...vote of 32 to 15, precisely the two-thirds majority that was needed, the Oklahoma senate last week ousted State Supreme Court Justice Napoleon Bona parte Johnson, 74, on impeachment charges made by the state house of representatives (TIME, April 16). The case hinged on the testimony of former Justice Nelson S. Corn, 81, who was granted immunity after admitting that in 1957 he took a $150,000 bribe to mastermind the 6-2 reversal of a state tax claim against a shady investment company...
Many governments have reacted to the smoking-and-health reports by hoping that they would go away. Influenced by the fact that France's tobacco monopoly (founded by Napoleon) now earns $900 million a year, the health ministry has done practically nothing to publicize the cancer reports. Turkey's newspapers patriotically contend that smoking of artificially flavored foreign cigarettes may be harmful but that there is no danger in enjoying the state monopoly's smokes, made from "pure" Turkish tobacco. To strengthen its own depleted treasury, the Algerian government is stepping up production in cigarette factories. South...
Little in U.S. judicial history comes close to matching the scandal now swirling around the Oklahoma State Supreme Court. Last week Oklahoma's senate scheduled proceedings against Justice Napoleon Bonaparte Johnson, 74, on impeachment charges by the state house of representatives. His colleague, Justice Earl Welch, 73, will escape the same fate only because he recently resigned in the wake of charges that he and Johnson took bribes in exchange for favorable decisions. Meanwhile, a state grand jury has indicted the two justices, both of them Oklahoma Indians. The alleged bribery ringleader is former Chief Justice Nelson S. Corn...
Died. David losifovich Zaslavsky, 85, Pravda's most poisonous penman since 1928, who called Churchill "a broken lance bearer," Truman "a cold-war Napoleon," Hammarskjold "a hangman and murderer," but saved his strongest venom for Boris Pasternak, sneering that he was "an extraneous smudge" and leading the chorus that forced the author of Doctor Zhivago to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize; in Moscow...
Junkers & Jews. "Iron and blood" were his watchwords, but Bismarck just as often won his way by using bribery and bluster. Early in his expansionist program, France or even Italy could have stopped him from grabbing the other German states and trampling Austria. Bismarck scared off Napoleon III by threatening general war; that was mostly bluff, but the appeasing Napoleon was so racked with pain from bladder troubles that he scarcely knew what was going on. The Chancellor then bought off Italy's vain Victor Emmanuel by giving him the Order of the Black Eagle and promising...