Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 10, 1947, an inmate at Framingham hung herself with a knotted bedsheet from a sprinkler pipe in her bedroom. Senator LoPresti and a lawyer who represented the girl's parents demanded an investigation. When the district attorney confirmed the original verdict of suicide last May, LoPresti went to the Department of Correction. he also went to the Boston American, which obligingly slapped his allegations on page...
...beatings the girl was alleged to have received, "and about what happened in Dr. Van Waters' little iron curtain empire on the day of the murder." But in spite of certain dubious evidence that LoPresti produced in the American, even the Department of Correction later agreed with the suicide verdict, and did not bring the matter up in the charges against Dr. Van Waters...
...Went up to Capitol Hill at the invitation of Missouri's Democratic delegation to see how St. Joseph steaks compared with Kansas City's. The verdict: just as good...
When "Grand Illusion" first appeared in 1937, the general opinion was that no finer war film had been made. This reviewer feels very strongly that this verdict holds true...
...high regard for due process" hailed by such ordinarily enlightened writers as Dorothy Thompson actually points t a very different verdict. Dr. Allen's recommendations were based on the investigation made by the faculty committee on tenure. But the investigators' recommendations disagree with Allen's in all but on case. Dr. Allen holds that membership in the Communist Party, per sc, constitutes incompetence to teach. On the basis of the same evidence, gathered in 33 meetings, the faculty committee found that in two of the three cases this...