Word: rapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Managing Editor Canham's guidance the Monitor's austere crust is softening. The paper ignored Film Actor Errol Flynn's rape trial but did print the verdict briefly. When 489 people died in Boston's Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, the Monitor refrained from running pictures, or horrifying descriptions of the victims' screams, but did give Page One display to the story and printed all victims' names. And the Monitor today, as it never did in World War I, covers war news straight. Mentioning casualties and cannon in its clean, unruffled prose, it realistically...
...Volunteers had almost no discipline. Early in the war, "the depots and bases filled with whores, sutlers, and gamblers, were already a continuous jamboree and vicious with crime." One Maryland regiment "suffered attrition from delirium tremens." A Kentucky regiment had to be "ordered to the rear in disgrace, for rape...
...fellow while soldier, race prejudice continues in the Army, principally from men of Southern origin. Australians, encountering the American Negro for the first time, met him on equal ground an said, "We were told by white American soldiers that all Negroes are cannibals, illiterates, savages, and that they will rape our women. We were told that all Negroes were ragged and diseased." The English, too, were surprised at the racial prejudices in the American Expeditionary Force, and from pub to Parliament have criticized this "American...
...acquitted hero, having shaken hands with his twelve saviors, turned to the world at large and cleared his throat. "My confidence now has been justified in essential American justice," announced Enrol Flynn, "I really mean it. . . ." The jury had just acquitted him on three counts of statutory rape. He added: "I've got to get my health back. [He is 4-F in the draft.] Then I've got a military mission in Europe. Nope, I just can't tell what it is all about...
More embarrassing to Ed Flynn than anything which took place in Washington was the fact that 3,000 miles away another Flynn-impulsive Cinemactor Errol-was also undergoing a personal ordeal (for rape). To Ed Flynn's annoyance, accounts of the two inquisitions continued to pop up side-by-side in the nation's press. Most amusing mélange of the two stories appeared in the Denver Rocky Mountain Herald, a small weekly of 2,000 circulation, edited by the wife of Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril. Said the Herald, in a front-page jingle titled Flynnlandia...