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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wetumpka, Ala. (pop. 3,300) last week, a jury of white men weighed the facts in the trial of a white man charged with raping a Negro woman. The prosecutor, Winston Huddleston, urged the jurors to decide the case "just like you would if a Negro was charged with raping a white woman . . . [and] show the Negro that he can get justice in court." The jurors did. They found 30-year-old John C. Howard guilty and fixed his penalty (an Alabama jury's prerogative) at 45 years in prison. Next day Howard's cousin, 21-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: Show the Negro ... | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Bits & Pieces. Vergara's stubborn silence blocked full inquiry into the biggest question of all: Who, if anyone, had inspired and financed him? But from bits & pieces, fitted together, Prosecutor José Nogues bluntly tagged the plot "Made in Argentina." Said he: "The subversive movement . . . was inspired from Argentina and intimately synchronized with similar movements in other Latin American countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Plot That Failed | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...wind up the affair, Prosecutor Nogues recommended five years' imprisonment for Vergara, three years' banishment for Ibañez and fines of 50,000 pesos ($1,175) each. For the officers he asked lighter terms; for the noncoms, only two months' military arrest. At week's end President González, who knows a danger signal when he sees one, was pushing through Congress a 20% pay raise for the armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Plot That Failed | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Bradley about a caustic letter from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (an Army source informed Pearson) complaining about the Army's "slipshod" training program. ("As a result," said Pearson, "Bradley has called in four 'top-ranking generals and raised hell.") Over lunch at the Mayflower hotel, War Crimes Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan, just back from Tokyo, fed Pearson an "inside" story that Emperor Hirohito wants a military alliance with the U.S. An anonymous telephone call brought a chance to throw a dart at a favorite target, Senator Owen Brewster, for taking free rides on Government planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Said Crown Prosecutor Arthur McClellan when the boys came to trial: "I think these two unfortunate boys [both lacked normal home life] have been strongly influenced by what they have been reading." Judge Charles Kitchen committed the 13-year-old to the Provincial Industrial School for Boys at Port Coquitlam, B.C.; the younger he turned over to the Child Welfare Superintendent at Vancouver. Said Judge Kitchen: "I agree as to the influence of the literature these boys have been subjected to ... A concerted effort should be made to see that this worse, than rubbish is abolished in some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Just Like the Book | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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