Word: lastingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Last week a federal court of appeals reversed the conviction of Judith Coplon, ex-Justice Department analyst convicted of trying to pass secret documents to the Russians. The court's reason: legal blunders by the FBI in gathering the evidence and making the arrest. The court was sure, however, that her "guilt is plain." She still stood convicted by another court, on a charge of stealing the documents...
Alger Hiss was near the end of his road. Last week a U.S. court of appeals decided there was enough believable evidence of his guilt. The "breadth and scope" of Whittaker Chambers' testimony against him had been "adequately substantiated," said the court. Nor could the court find any reversible errors in his second trial, which ended last January, in Hiss's conviction for perjury on two counts...
...year-old Washington spinster named Margaret Shipman read the news of his incarceration with fire in her eye. Last week Miss Shipman, a wiry, retired schoolteacher who once circulated petitions for Sacco & Vanzetti, decided to rush to the rescue. Although she had never met Browder until the day before, she marched into Washington district court, dug 15 new $100 bills out of her battered handbag and demanded his release. Was she a Communist? reporters wanted to know. "Now that's none of your business," she said "and don't you make up anything." The authorities counted...
...free world's desperate efforts to find a way out of the Korean crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky last week gave a candid and memorable answer. At Lake Success, Vishinsky had this to say of the weak six-power resolution (see below) which politely deplores Chinese Communist "intervention" in Korea...
...last week the U.N. passively dragged its feet and averted its eyes from the unpleasant fact of Chinese Communist aggression in Korea. Nobody even wanted to call it aggression...