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Offense. To make matters worse, it became apparent that Baruch, Hancock & Co. had inadvertently offended another potent political force. Their warmhearted words about "the human problems" of reconversion contained no mention of consultation with labor, no specific recommendations on dismissal pay for workers, etc., though it did contain a detailed blueprint for paying off war contractors...
...detector won. In Brooklyn last week Mrs. Edna Hancock, who had pitted her word against that of a lie detector in a recent rape case (TIME, Jan. 10), was indicted for perjury. Her alleged rapist, Murray Goldman, was saved from a ten-year prison sentence...
...case could not alter the fact that lie detectors may sometimes lie,* but that was all right with Mr. Goldman. Mrs. Hancock, an employe of Brooklyn State Hospital, had charged that he broke into her room and tried to rape her. A jury convicted him. But when the lie detector supported his story that he was no stranger to Mrs. Hancock's favors, Judge Samuel Leibowitz went hunting for corroborative evidence. Result: several other men friends of Mrs. Hancock (besides her husband) turned up. She finally admitted that she had met Goldman before. Last week the District Attorney waved...
Adventure in Prosperity. The prime feature of the Baruch Report is its solid optimism". The shrewd oldster and his white-thatched "junior partner," John Milton Hancock, 61, said bluntly: "There is no need for a postwar depression." Far from cringing at the unknown terrors of the future, the optimistic Ancients buoyantly proclaimed that the conversion job, if competently managed, "should be an adventure in prosperity." Cried Author Baruch to Scripps-Howard's Henry J. Taylor: "If the program carries the scream of the American eagle, it is because I feel that the old bird in its own right deserves...
...wound up" the war economy should unwind it, Messrs. Baruch & Hancock have implied that overall reconversion policies can best be set by an agency acting under Presidential directive...