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...said the major to Lieutenant Thornton, 'you have had your trial, a People's Trial, People's Justice. Now I will kill...
...morning after a hurried breakfast with the Cabinet, the President flew off to Amarillo, Texas for a fast personal inspection of the parched plains and a conference with the governors of six drought-ridden states: Texas' Allan Shivers, Colorado's Dan Thornton, New Mexico's Edwin Mechem, Oklahoma's Johnston Murray, Kansas' Edward Arn, Arkansas' Francis Cherry...
Political enemies of Thornton, headed by State Senator Morton G. Wyatt, used information secretly obtained from the report to attack Thornton and his appointee, Colorado University President Robert L. Stearns. After Stearns had declared there were no "subversives" on the University faculty, Wyatt named three on the libel free halls of the State Senate, and demanded they be fired. The speech, branded by the Lieutenant-Governor as "nauseating" led Thornton supporters to rush to the aid of the University, while supporters of civil liberties demanded that the two-year old report, compiled by former FBI agents, be either released...
...Thornton and Stearns are keeping them locked in the safe. They claim they "must be kept secret for the protection of innocent as well as punishment of those guilty." Yet as long as it is hush-hush, every faculty member of Colorado University is subject to the same treatment Senator Wyatt dished out last March...
...Thornton claimed that, "Wyatt is besmirching the character of outstanding citizens without facts...