Word: whitewashing
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These findings may have satisfied the Miami Chamber of Commerce, the Coral Gables Post of the American Legion, and other horrified groups which demanded investigations. But the verdict did not satisfy the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose Commander-in-Chief, James E. Van Zandt, at Washington indignantly cried "Whitewash!", demanded that the President "punish officials responsible," declared that three times before the hurricane hit, veterans' committees had asked their superiors to be evacuated, only to be repulsed by guards...
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...
...with the French Army and has been editor of the St. Paul Daily News for the past 16 years, brought half a dozen furloughed Department of Justice operatives to town to expose malfeasance in the St. Paul police force. There was a grand jury hearing, followed by a whitewash delivered over the radio by the foreman just as the late John Dillinger was shooting his way out of a local apartment house. But the Daily News's agitation last year helped St. Paul elect a reform Mayor who appointed as Commissioner of Public Safety Henry Edward ("Ned") Warren...
...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...