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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lying in Company. The court's most astonishing decision of the day was the setting aside of the perjury conviction of deposed Labor Leader Harold R. Christoffel, who ran the costly Allis Chalmers strike in 1941. Christoffel had been given a two-to six-year prison sentence for falsely telling the House Education and Labor Committee that he was not a Communist. The Supreme Court, split 5 to 4, rescued Christoffel with a startling technicality: a quorum of the committee was not on hand when he told his lies; therefore, though he lied under oath, he had not lied...
...R. PORTER...
This time, the Republicans dressed up their account of Tan's execution with details. Tan, they said, was executed by a firing squad April 9, near Blitar, in East Java. The Republicans also reported that they had executed three other Communist chieftains: former Premier Amir Sjarifoed-den, R. M. Suripino, a former Republican diplomat, and a Communist Party secretary named Hadjono...
...Robert R. Newell, director of Stanford's radio-biological laboratory, polled 32 of the nation's topflight radiologists and physicists on the question : How much radiation would it take to kill a man? Last week Dr. Newell reported his findings. The radiologists gave such widely varied answers that the important question was left hanging...
...James R. Angell...