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Pinning tke Rap. So long as Stalin lived, the Leningrad Case was a "quiet purge": nothing was said of it in print. It was first used as a weapon after Stalin's death, in the overthrow and execution of Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria. Even then, mention of the case was confined to a secret memorandum foreshadowing the later declaration in Khrushchev's famed 20th Party Congress speech on Feb. 24, 1956 that it was "precisely Beria" who "fabricated" the charges against the Zhdanovites. Within a year after Beria's death, Malenkov's power...
From there on, the way was clear for Khrushchev to pin the rap on Malenkov. In February 1955, when Malenkov was ousted as Premier, one of the charges against him in secret party councils was that he was "co-responsible for the Leningrad Case." And two weeks ago, in Khrushchev's speech to the Elektrosila factory workers came the blunt, public denunciation: "Malenkov, who was one of the most important organizers of the so-called Leningrad Case, was simply afraid to come here to you in Leningrad...
Lodestone. In Milwaukee, George C. Faust, 51, homeless and unable hold a job since leaving prison last September after a two-year burglary rap, broke a gas station window, stole nothing but called police and asked to be arrested for burglary, told the judge, who noted the penalty was one to ten years, "I'll take ten," got 2½ arrived at the state prison in Waupun in time for supper...
...went on trial for the dynamiting in 1955, a tough, aggressive Tribune reporter named J. Harold Brislin interviewed him and wrote a story after his conviction asking: "Will Bradshaw talk?" Four months later, out on bail and embittered by the way his union pals had let him take the rap, Paul Bradshaw decided at last to talk-to Harold Brislin...
...that point the details were filled in by Witness Paul Bradshaw, Teamsters ex-steward who decided to sing after taking the rap for what was to happen next to Pozusek. Bradshaw testified that he and some other union goons were instructed by Carpenters' Business Agent Joe Bartell to go over to the Pozusek project 'and "saw the joists to the breaking point-not to saw all the way through." Bartell explained that "nine -times out of ten, he [Pozusek] will never notice it, and when the home is built and the people move in, the thing will collapse...