Word: whitewash
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...charged once again that Clark's investigation of Kansas City's vote frauds in last year's congressional primary (TIME, June 16) was "whitewash." But the Republicans ran into a three-day Democratic talkfest which effectively blocked a vote on the Kem resolution. It looked as if denizens of that alley wanted no snoopers...
This week, as Republican Subcommittee Chairman Homer Ferguson shouted "whitewash" and recommended a full Senate investigation of Tom Clark's actions, the FBI was given a free hand in Kansas City. Meanwhile, Harry Truman insisted that the investigation be pushed to the limit. Cackled Republicans derisively : "Nobody in here but us chickens...
Deerfield Academy's lacrosse team displayed all the power they were reputed to possess yesterday afternoon as they defeated the Harvard Freshmen by a 17 to 1 score on the Business School field. Paul Davidson scored the lone Crimson tally to save his team from a complete whitewash...
Throughout the Chinese War, American emissaries with rare exception were willing to identify peace in China with the only stability that this nation had ever known. A succession of peacemakers, led by the Indian-fighter Hurley, allowed the de jure status of the Kuomintang government to whitewash the true structure of a monolithic, one-party government. For those in Chungking, the Chiang regime meant the law and the established order plus the only chance of carrying the Asiatic war to the interior lines of the enemy...
...their members) of the Senate's Campaign Expenditures Committee on his 1946 election campaign: "Never to the knowledge of the undersigned has such vile, inflammatory and dangerous language been uttered . . . for the purpose of procuring nomination." The committee's majority report, signed by Democrats, was a whitewash...