Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican politicos, who know a tailor-made campaign issue when they see it, were happily trying one on for size last week. The fit was just about perfect. Last summer's Kansas City primary, in which President Harry Truman successfully purged Democratic Congressman Roger Slaughter-"If he's right," said Truman, "I'm wrong"-was shaping into a natty political scandal...
...While Attorney General Tom Clark dawdled, a Jackson County grand jury opened the ballot boxes from 34 out of 255 precincts, found a "deliberate, calculated and premeditated plan" to miscount, steal and buy votes. Said the jury, which had already indicted 71: "It is our belief that Roger C. Slaughter was deprived of the nomination by a fraudulent miscount of votes and other types of fraud...
...sadhus huddled around holy fires and chanted appeals to the Universal Force "to save earth's children from destruction." In groups they picketed the Parliamentary Rotunda (where the Constituent Assembly was meeting), Cabinet ministers' homes, the Government Secretariat. They shouted slogans: "Absolute Good unto All," "Cow Slaughter Must Be Banned," "Woe unto Evil...
...last week nine months of slaughter, pillage, and arson had killed nearly 15,000* Indians (according to low Government estimates), had all but persuaded Britons and Congress leaders that Moslems and Hindus could not cooperate in a unified nation. Almost everybody but Gandhi now accepts the principle of Pakistan (a separate Moslem state or states). Even Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has said: "The Moslem League can have Pakistan if they wish to have it." But he served notice that if India was going to split along communal lines, Congress would not let Jinnah have non-Moslem territories which he claims...
...manufacturers' official position was that a high hide price and high wages did not add up to price reductions. But privately they whistled a different tune. They were not so sure that hides would stay up (they have already dropped some) with cattle slaughter 35% above last year. Nor could shoe prices stay high if sales continued to drop. Said one retailer: "Shoe prices will be 20% lower by July...