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...Shoot a Prisoner." Similar cynicism had long echoed in the U.S. among civilians and G.I.s alike. Since the trials of 16 guards and camp officers began last December (TIME, Dec. 31 et seq.), they had listened, appalled, to the grim testimony of former Lichfield prisoners. Men had been beaten there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were...
...cancers that ate at the vitals of the Third Republic none was more conspicuously malignant than the "affaire Stavisky." It took its name from Mystery-Millionaire Alexander Stavisky, who one day in 1934 was found shot to death in a snowbound Alpine hideout (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934 et seq.). Sûretée agents had trailed him there to ask him about the failure of the municipal pawnshop at Bayonne, in which Stavisky held the controlling interest...
...busy mentor of the Garsson brothers' nexus of paper-built munitions companies, that it was fairly common talk around the Gars-sons' Washington office that packets of $1,000 and $3,000 were sent up The Hill to handy Andy (TIME, July 15 et seq...
Federated's brass hats were dead sure that the answer to the question was no. So, like many another corporation, they devised their own incentive plan, based on stock options (TIME, May 29 et seq...
Involved in this issue, as everyone had foreseen at the recent Pan American conference in Mexico City (TIME, March 5 et seq.), was the Monroe Doctrine's historic insistence upon the independence and political self-sufficiency of the Western Hemisphere (excluding Canada). When...