Word: whitewash
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...Errors of Judgment." The almost identical statements did not whitewash Kimmel and Short, both of whom had been charged with dereliction of duty in the earlier Roberts report (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942). In a calmer atmosphere, the Secretaries now found Kimmel and Short merely guilty of "errors of judgment." In one respect the Secretaries went farther than the Roberts report. They spread an indictment for bad judgment over "[naval] officers both at Pearl Harbor and at Washington," as well as other "officers in the field and in the War Department." (No names were mentioned...
...with being somewhat insensitive to the means which they have employed in pursuit of their righteous ends. In 1930, when Warren set out to indict some Oakland city officials for graft, he well knew that if the indictment did not come off, he would be charged with engineering a whitewash. Accordingly, he released daily transcripts of the grand jury testimony to the press - a clear law violation - to show that he was doing his utmost. Happily for him, the indictment and convictions followed...
King Mihai seems to be preparing himself for the role which Vittorio Emanuele has assumed in Italy. For months, a subtle campaign has been developing in the Allied and neutral press, seeking to whitewash the young King and the discredited Rumanian royal family. Twice in recent weeks Mihai has called in Mahiu, presumably to fix up an approach to Britain. Both he and Queen Mother Helen have taken pains to visit U.S. airmen who have been forced down and sumptuously "imprisoned" in Rumania's mountains...
...Star-Times triumphantly editorialized on Page One: "Strange and decadent journalism that, in order to embarrass or discredit a competitor, lines up on the side of suppression, censorship and whitewash." The Globe-Democrat and the Post-Dispatch had nothing...
...Against this background, which was not too dissimilar from that of other war-crowded cities, Michigan's Governor Harry F. Kelly last week issued the report of a committee he had set up to determine the causes of Detroit's riot. Said the report, in a broad whitewash of the city's bumbling, do-nothing administration and incompetent police force...