Word: whitewash
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...unprecedented "partial report," which stated that it had been unable to find any signs that "influence 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...
...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 it to Judge Moore, was read over the telephone to Slack in Washington for his approval...
...This is part of its long record which coddled Communists at home and appeased them abroad, fought exposure of subversives, employed congressional investigators to whitewash suspects, and permitted Communist spies to enter the country, and even to serve in the Government...
...prepared text, onetime Professor Douglas appended a page of footnotes, and from time to time he referred to a large map of Asia behind him. But it was an all-out political speech, a more or less skillful attempt to whitewash the Administration's Asia policy...
...varsity, in its second straight whitewash victory, dropped only one set to the Tech third doubles team at Soldiers Field, while the Yardlings, playing at the Engineers' courts, swept through their opposition in 18 straight sets...