Word: reports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comeback. In Carnation, Wash., four safecrackers, disturbed at work by Town Marshal John Mills, returned and made off with the safe while he was telephoning his report...
Visiting Democrat. Majority Leader Lucas offered McCarran one last chance to report out some kind of D.P. bill-even if it was the shabby bill which McCarran himself had proposed." When would he be ready? Replied Pat: "Probably not before next May." Well, what if the committee reported out the McCarran bill anyhow? Pat hit the ceiling. "I would be forced to oppose my own bill," he roared. "I have been gathering a lot of material on this question for weeks. I have enough to fill the Congressional Record from now to next Christmas...
After Kutner took the case (he likes to take on "charity cases" which intrigue him), he discovered that all important court records were destroyed or missing. But Lawyer Kutner's investigators did obtain a medical report submitted by a Dr. John E. Walter of Waukegan the day after the crime. It showed that Mamie Snow had not been raped. The prosecution, ruthlessly bent on convicting him, had suppressed the report...
That was the version given by the army "committee" under one Colonel Sami Hennawi, which led the putsch and seized power. Another report was that Zaim was shot down at his house when he tried to hurl a hand grenade at his captors and that 18 others died with him. Whatever the truth, Zaim and his premier were dead. Damascus also heard that Zaim had refused a blindfold with the words: "I lived bravely and I want to die bravely...
...year Comptroller General of the U.S., Warren has frequently barked an alarm at war contract settlements; he believes that "everybody and his brother were out to get the Government during the lush war years." Last week, Watchdog Warren showed some real bite. In a report to Congress on war contract settlements, he accused federal agencies of "improper payment of many millions of dollars of public funds through fraud, collusion, ignorance, inadvertence or overliberality...