Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convicted Nazi general really guilty? The question stirs some qualms in his idealistic prosecutor, a U.S. Army major (Ray Milland). Major Milland's search for the facts might have turned up some interesting moral issues-or at least some effective melodrama. Instead, there is only a sort of slow-motion cops & robbers chase in an uncertain direction. By the time Milland's search is patly ended, even the realistic backgrounds have begun to take on a phony look...
...Call for Help. With the elections in the offing-and Democrats making hay with the case-Hull denounced the recordings as a fake, and demanded another grand jury. Governor Green's attorney general sent a special prosecutor to Peoria to handle it. Last week the second grand jury brought in its report. It indicted Reporter Link, Big Earl Shelton and the other two witnesses to the Petrakos interview on charges of kidnaping, conspiracy and intimidation. They had seized Petrakos, the jury charged, "for the purpose of getting a confession." The grand jury also accused the Post-Dispatch...
William W. Oppenheim '49, who yesterday resigned as President of the Harvard Democratic Club to become a Young Republican, will be tried for impeachment on nine specific counts when the club meets in closed session this evening, Edward F. Burke '50, special prosecutor for the Executive Committee, announced last night...
...however, the charges do not stick and the prosecutor cannot get the required two-thirds vote of those present for impeachment, the Executive Committee plans to issue a resolution of public condemnation against its former chief...
...days later, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky strode to the rostrum. In his best prosecutor's fashion, he once more listed U.S. citizens whom he considered warmongers (Secretary James Forrestal, Senator Styles Bridges, et al). Vishinsky proposed an international control body under the Security Council (where Russia has a veto) to supervise a general 33⅓% armament reduction. He also repeated Russia's demand for the immediate outlawing of the atomic bomb. That was the old story -Russia wants the U.S. to destroy its bombs but at the same time Russia refuses to accept an international control...