Word: whitewash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your jaunty review of the Legislative Committee's investigation of radicalism at the University of Chicago (TIME, June 24) is as misleading as the idea that anything but a whitewash was conducted, except for Senator Baker. At the farcical hearings every anti-Communist witness with evidence on the subject was shamelessly browbeaten, insulted and repressed...
...Hughes thinks it should do, and as he always works to try to make it do, the Court spoke unanimously. These unanimous decisions meant more, however, than a victory for the Chief Justice. They served warning on the New Deal that it could not hope to win a legal whitewash by packing the Court with New Dealers. And the spectacle of liberals and conservatives united was the most convincing evidence that the Constitution itself, not the will of five obstinate old men who happened to be a majority, had interdicted the policies of the New Deal. By unanimity the Court...
...Oglethorpe, drunken Richard Gray Gallogly held up an Atlanta drugstore, killed the cashier, shot out the face of an Oglethorpe campus clock. The Grays never refer to their black sheep but no wise Atlantan thought for a minute last week that they would ever trade political peace for family whitewash...
...Carl Rettich's yacht Prudence in Boston harbor three years ago. they searched in vain for contraband until one chanced to unscrew an electric light bulb. At once panels slid back, revealing thousands of dollars worth of liquor. In Rettich's Warwick house the raiders scraped some whitewash off a brick pillar in the cellar, found and turned a key. A great slab of concrete rose quietly out of the floor, opening the way to a subcellar. Steps led from the subcellar to a huge vault in which were found three machine guns, 25 Winchester rifles, pistols, much...
...last week a vast stretch of the South was the scene of humanity hit bottom. No statistics could picture the pallid acres from Georgia to Arkansas, pocked with the burnt stumps of slash pine, gully-gutted, unfertilized; where the whitewash peeled from treeless shacks; where hatchet-faced tenants were not even able to get the three M's-Meal, Molasses and Meat-a diet that nourishes pellagra...