Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyers" had successfully quashed tax-fraud cases. Judge Moore indignantly rejected the report and put the grand jury back to work. Then he tried to find out who had been responsible for the whitewash report. In last week's deposition he pointed his judicial finger directly at Ellis Slack, 51, then an attorney in Justice's Tax Division. (Slack became acting chief of the division after Minkman Theron Lamar Caudle was fired...
Telephone Approval. Ellis Slack, ashen and restless, sat listening in the congressional committee room while Committee Counsel Robert Collier read from Judge Moore's deposition. One day last October, said the judge, he bumped into U.S. Attorney Watson, "who was then showing unmistakable signs of ill health, which resulted in his death two months later." Watson was anxious to tell him that Ellis Slack, on one of his visits to St. Louis, had ordered the "whitewash" grand jury report. Watson's story: the report was written in Watson's office and, before the grand jury presented...
Before Judge Moore's deposition was read, Slack had denied to the committee that he had had anything to do with the report. After the judge's testimony was read, he repeated the denial. Slack's story was that his boss, Deputy Attorney General Peyton Ford, had sent him out to St. Louis to take "a look around" at the tax scandals. He could remember few details of what he actually...
...Dave Harrah's voice, and it had a tale to tell. Dave and Jim had reached the summit by traversing an 18-in. snow rib that ran for about 300 ft. Coming back, they had stopped a moment-letting the rope that bound them together go slack-for Jim to snap a shot of the summit...
...Neill stretches them taut with manias -Hogan's is for money, Josie's for sex, Jim's for liquor-then lets them slack with remorse. Hogan tells Josie that their landlord is going to sell the farm out from under them, and makes her agree to a shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there till her father appears with witnesses. Josie reneges on the scheme when she finds 1) that her father has lied about the farm, 2) that in Jim's life there is room for only...