Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people cries vengeance to the Lord." The United Nations General Assembly, having already voted, in vain, to send a commission of inquiry into Hungary, voted overwhelmingly to promote large-scale relief for Hungary's victims, and voted decisively (48-11, with 16 abstentions, mostly all Arab-Asian) to indict Russia for its "intolerable" acts of repression...
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Middlesex County District Attorney's office said that his office would "investigate the situation." At the same time the District Attorney himself, Ephraim Martin, pointed out that the city could employ anyone it wished. But, he added, "my job is to investigate and indict, if possible, persons violating the criminal laws, and gambling is a crime in this State...
...police. For five years they have been frustratingly familiar with many of the details of the crime, and all but one of the eleven gang members (Fugitive James Ignatius Flaherty, 44, a bartender, burglar and escape artist) have been primary suspects. In 1953 a federal grand jury refused to indict the ten for lack of legally admissible evidence. A year later Joseph F. Dineen, 57, a veteran Boston police reporter, wrote under the guise of "fiction" a magazine article and a book giving a highly accurate account of the crime and the criminals. Said one investigator last week...
...articles, which attempt to evaluate and report at the same time, would be either directed to a factual lapse, or a failure to support a judgment I make about the people here. I know of only one factual lapse--an inadvertent reference to the grand jury's failure to indict in the second (kidnap) trial of Milam and Bryant as an acquittal; and on reviewing the pieces, the second and third which were the ones with judgments. I find all the judgments on emotionalism supported...
...Greenwood, Miss., a 20-man grand jury last week declined to indict Roy Bryant and John W. Milam for the admitted kidnaping of Emmett Till, 14, of Chicago, before he was killed. Bryant and Milam were set free; their bail bonds, $10,000 each, were returned, despite the fact that both men, while denying that they had killed young Till, admitted to police that they had taken him from his uncle's home. On behalf of the Mississippians who regretted the grand jury's failure to indict, the Jackson State Times concluded: "The case . . . wound...