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Under a seldom-used state law, the D.A. charged that the bank and three of its officers were at fault. Last week a jury agreed. Along with Vice President Loren Rockwell, 66, Assistant Vice President Malcolm Angus, 48, and Credit Manager Edwin Carlson, 32, the 65-year-old Title Guarantee (total resources $60 million) was found guilty of conspiring to give out false credit information. The company was also found guilty on four other counts, Angus on one other, and Carlson on three others. The bank and the officers face maximum penalties of a $500 fine on each count, plus...
...more anxious to block the London agreement than the Reds. But last week they sat quiet, letting other government critics do most of the talking. Party Chief Maurice Thorez had warned the comrades: "Above all, dignity." Once Bidault remarked that if Europe was split, it was Russia's fault. Fernand Grenier, Communist deputy from Saint-Denis, rose like an angry bull. But Thorez turned like lightning and imperiously shushed...
Testifying on the Mundt-Nixon bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Communist Boss William Z. Foster was asked if U.S. Communists would fight against Russia. Said Foster: "If there is a war, the fault will lie not with the Soviet Union but with the Wall Street monopolists . . . We are not going to fight against the Soviet Union...
...fixing the blame for sterility, too many doctors (most of whom are men) still ignore the male's role. Dr. Stallworthy found defective male secretions at fault in 35% of his cases, defective ovulation in only...
...near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading ev'n fools, by Flatterers besieg'd, And so obliging, that he ne'er oblig'd; Like Cato, give his little Senate laws...