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...Clear. After 31 days of investigation and two million words of testimony, the subcommittee underwrote the loyalty of the State Department and cleared everybody McCarthy accused, with only a light knuckle rap here & there. Likewise innocent, said the report, were all Government investigators or prosecutors who had been assailed for mishandling the Amerasia case (although the report slipped lightly over the refusal of Amerasia Editor Philip Jaffe to testify for fear of possible self-incrimination). The report also urged a careful restudy of the principle of congressional immunity, which gave Joe McCarthy his libel-proof soapbox...
...Second Rap. Nine months later, just as Shephard was due for his freedom, detectives from neighboring Newark arrested him for other forgeries committed during the period covered in his first conviction...
...leader and onetime banker. Having been fired from his post at the Banco Iberico, Don Bernardo deemed himself a ruined man. But as a Spanish caballero, there was one thing more he could do for Luisa Maria. He could, in spite of his wife and ten children, take the rap for the duchess. Don Bernardo stoutly denied that she had any connection with his political activities. Said he: "If the facts are criminal, I myself am the only criminal...
...judge ruled that it was impossible, in a gang war, to determine whose bullet killed whom. So Dried Meat beat the murder rap, but he got six months in jail for illegal possession of arms. He served three months, then escaped through a sewer. While the press played him up as "Inimigo Público Número Um," the police unleashed Rio's most spectacular manhunt...
Smoking in the rooms, or keeping alcoholic beverages any place in the dormitories is definitely out. Dorm residents take the rap for any offense that their overnight guests might commit. Making loud or unnatural noises during quiet hours and neglecting to wait on table or take bell duty about winds up the most common offenses leading...