Word: acte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Admiral Louis Denfeld, who also took his stand against Defense Secretary Johnson and the workings of the unification act, was summarily fired as Chief of Naval Operations last October, he was offered another post: command of U.S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Last week, in a blistering letter, mild "Uncle Louie" Denfeld told Navy Secretary Francis Matthews he was turning down the job and announced he was considering retirement from the Navy. Wrote Denfeld...
...accused himself denied knowledge of atrocities, such as the use of gas wagons painted like carnival caravans which were employed by SS troops for mass executions. "Obviously some people acted differently from the way I expected them to act," he snapped. "A commander in chief can control his subordinates only to a very limited extent...
...lawyers pointed to decisions on the White Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (the Mann Act), which says, "Any person who shall knowingly . . . cause to be transported . . . in interstate commerce . . . any woman or girl for . . . any immoral purpose . . . shall be deemed guilty of a folony...
CRIMSON "share-the-shower" plans went down the drain last night when editors learned that their campaign to bring bathless New York college girls to Harvard tubs might be considered a violation of the Mann Act...
...lawyers also referred to Athanasaw v. US (Florida, 1913): "Procuring or aiding the interstate transportation of a girl for the purposes of employing her under such surroundings as tend to induce her to give herself up to a condition of debauchery . . . constitutes the offence denounced by the act...