Word: verminous
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Grubbing in the lowest strata of the "vermin" press, Attorney General Francis Biddle presented his much-laden findings to a Washington grand jury, last week got the jury to indict 27 men and one woman for conspiracy to promote revolt and disloyalty among members of the U.S. armed forces. Rounded up for a trial this autumn were some of the country's best-known and loudest rabble-rousers, anti-Semites, Anglophobes, Roosevelt-haters, defeatists, Axis agents and just plain crackpots...
Marines have been keeping plenty of sand spits free of vermin since this war started. Your comments relative to the Pacific often refer to "Midway still holding out," etc. What the hell do you think is going on, a private war on Midway? Look at some of the other spots on your map for an idea occasionally...
...bootlegger, ex-Klansman, ex-Coughlinite and a black hater of Jews, Communists and Roosevelt last week provided the first humor thus far in the Government's crackdown on "vermin publications." Square-jawed Court Asher, Muncie, Ind. publisher of XRay, was defending his weekly before Washington postal authorities, who gave him until June 2 to show cause why his paper should not be banned for sedition...
...Government did not call it quits. A Federal Grand Jury went right ahead questioning employes of Social Justice. Attorney General Biddle, bent on closing up some 95 so-called "vermin" publications, was clearly determined to indict those responsible for the "clearly seditious" statements published in Social Justice, under the Espionage Act of 1917 (penalties: $10,000 fine, up to 20 years in prison...
...sharp-toothed Espionage Act of 1917, Social Justice will not only be put out of business, but Father Coughlin may also face a $10,000 fine and up to 20 years in prison. For the Government intends to make this case the beginning of a drive against some 95 "vermin" publications - just as the Wilson Government's suppression of the left-wing American Socialist and later of Victor Berger's Milwaukee Leader set the pace for suppression of some 400 publications in World...