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...mayor was indicted, tried, and found guilty of conspiring to cause the police department's vice squad to neglect its duties. "I was framed!" he cried. When he was sentenced to serve four years at hard labor, he refused to resign as mayor and announced that he would keep right on running the city from his cell. But by this time nobody was listening. When he entered gloomy old Dedham jail last week, he was forbidden to have more than one visitor a week, denied permission to use a telephone, to see aides or sign city papers. The city...
...There is evidence of the inquisitorial character of those investigations in the fact that they magnify the exceedingly small amount of 'subversiveness' which the bring to light and neglect the fact that they have found the country's educational institutions to be overwhelmingly loyal to American institutions," he added...
President Eisenhower gave dramatic proof this week that his Administration is not going to neglect Latin America. He addressed a special meeting of the Council of the Organization of American States, held in connection with the observance of Pan American Day. It was the first time since 1946 that a President of the U.S. had appeared at this annual ceremony...
Looking haggard, unshaven, and green around the axillarys, Ibis went on to charge his society brothers with "mental cruelty, sadism, and neglect. . . . All they did was laugh, laugh, laugh," he said. "And drink martinis dry martinis...
Taking Harvard as an example, we do not feel that membership in the Communist party per se is either "grave misconduct" or "neglect of duty," even though these 17th century terms of the University statutes are eminently clastic. But recruiting for the CP and similar actions are, because they abuse a teacher's classroom prestige in order to train students for potentially illegal acts...