Word: proved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Teamsters President Dave Beck appeared before the McClellan Committee last March, he took the Fifth Amendment on questions about his misuse of union funds, shrilly boasted that he would prove his innocence in a court of law. He will soon have his chance: last week in Tacoma, Wash. a federal grand jury charged Beck* with evading $184,000 in income taxes for 1951, 1952, 1953. Added to the $56,000 for 1950 charged in another indictment last May. this makes Beck...
...critics, Hoffa claims only contempt. "I don't give a damn what they say," he says. "Jimmy Hoffa can take care of himself. Why don't the newspapers go out and ask my members what they think of Jimmy Hoffa? They can't prove I've misused my union power...
...Syria,'' said Moscow radio, and to make the story more credible, T-34 tanks were withdrawn from conspicuous posts on the road to Damascus. Western correspondents suddenly found the offices of Syrian political and military leaders more accessible than in years, as if to prove all the earlier headlines untrue. The Syrian government, worried by the abrupt ups and downs of its currency, sought to reassure conservative Syrian businessmen that a leftist government in power need not mean expropriation. Three Syrian trade officials flew off to Moscow, anxious to justify the press stories of bountiful Soviet aid "without...
...first day Judge Kawachi recessed the trial, announced that the next session would be held at the scene of the shooting. There the prosecution will attempt to prove one of the major points of its case: that Girard deliberately lured the Japanese woman onto the range (to scavenge for brass cartridge cases) and then fired...
...twinkle-eyed little Bostonian, Lincoln Filene was already busily at work in a haberdashery founded by his father, a Prussian immigrant tailor, by the time he was ten, and he never had another job. In 1891 he took over the business with his brother, and promptly set out to prove a new idea for U.S. retailers. "If we were to create contentment in front of the counter," he said, "we had first to create contentment behind...