Word: rubottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consultants headed home, their baggage bulged with more than 100 lbs. of notes, reports, project proposals, statistical analyses. The tour, said Inter-American Affairs Chief Rubottom, who went along to act as vice chairman (chairman: Christian Herter) on this trip, should pay off indefinitely. "It is easier to have better understanding at each end if you know the man who will be involved." Added Uruguayan Shipping Magnate Manuel Lussich Lin: "They knew a little about us. We knew nothing about them. Now we know each other well...
...Brown, who in hours-long solitude had been agonizing over the Chessman case, Rubottom's wire came as from "the hand of God." The Governor quickly got on the direct phone line to San Quentin Prison on San Francisco Bay, talked to Warden Fred Dickson. Said the warden: "I am at the cell with the condemned man." Ordered Governor Brown: "Well, you can send him back upstairs. I am granting him a 60-day reprieve." In his "holding cell," only 15 paces and ten hours from death in the gas chamber, hawk-nosed Convict Caryl Whittier Chessman, 38, self...
...Brown buzzed fitfully for days, declaimed at visitors and friends about his problem. His assistant attorney general, Richard Rogan, even called Director George V. Allen of the U.S. Information Agency in Washington to hint strongly that the Governor would like an official request for clemency; Allen refused. But Roy Rubottom's telegram last week resolved the Governor's doubts...
...declared Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that U.S. justice can be "pressured by groups of people in Europe and incipient mobs of students in a small Latin American country." Others, including California's Senators Thomas Kuchel and Clair Engle, found the Rubottom telegram unwarranted...
...Rubottom had a precedent of sorts. In September 1958, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, writing that he had no intention of interfering with a state judicial system, advised Alabama's Governor James E. Folsom that U.S. embassies around the world were being flooded with letters about the fate of a condemned Negro, Jimmie Wilson. Convicted of a nighttime robbery (a capital offense in Alabama), Wilson, 55, had stolen $1.95, faced the electric chair. Ordering a clemency hearing about two weeks after Dulles' letter, Folsom noted the "international hullabaloo," soon afterward commuted Wilson's sentence to life...