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...press services weeks ahead of time. "This is a white-slave factory," an assistant attorney general announced. "No woman has escaped this community for at least ten years. They are forced to submit to men old enough to be their grandfathers." Warrants charging 122 adults with conspiracy to commit such crimes as polygamy, rape, bigamy and misappropriation of school funds were carefully drawn...
...told his sidekick, Screenwriter Peter Verrill, "it's not a crime to kill an elephant. It's bigger than that . . . It's a sin . . . The only sin you can buy a license for and then go out and commit. And that's why I want to do it before I do anything else. You understand...
Said he carefully: "I do not commit myself to any specific amount when the appropriations come before this body." The best guess of wise heads on Capitol Hill: actual appropriations probably will fall $1 billion below the ceiling...
Reece turned out to be the pivotal holdout. Taft-before-Chicago-Man Reece was having some patronage troubles down home with some Ike-before-Chicago rivals, and he refused to commit himself on a vote as the hearing began...
Middle East. Churchill wants the Commonwealth to commit itself to the wartime defense of Suez, but members could not agree. Nehru and Mohammed Ali, both of whom plan to visit Egyptian Dictator Naguib on their way home from London, thought that, in Nehru's words, "progressive and controlled nationalism in the Middle East must not be thwarted." South Africa, however, worried that Russian land armies might one day storm across the Middle East and sweep through Africa, raising thousands of Mau Mau-style recruits along...