Word: whitewashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from his abbreviated career at Harvard, through his early publishing ventures in California, his entry into New York, his pre-War triumphs and present stormy twilight. Authors Lundberg, Carlson & Bates liberally plaster Publisher Hearst with controversial tar, while Mrs. Older is equally generous in coating her hero with sympathetic whitewash. Some contrasting findings on the character & career of Mr. Hearst...
...named Sam ("Slinging Sam") Baugh. Sam Baugh throws passes like a catcher shooting a fast one to second base. In the matter of material, fortune had also smiled on Coach Madison A. ("Matty") Bell of Southern Methodist. From 1,300 undergraduates, he selected a team good enough to whitewash the University of California at Los Angeles (TIME, Nov. 18), to remain undefeated, untied in ten games. A Centre man himself, Matty Bell has now worked for three of the seven colleges in the Southwest Conference. In 1923-28 he coached at Texas Christian. Two bad seasons at Texas...
...Clayton, in the Canal Zone, caused Publisher Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American to charge the commander of that post with working his men mercilessly under the tropical sun, driving them to smoke marijuana cigarets which led to madness and to death. When an Army investigation resulted in a whitewash, the post commander and the commanding general of the Canal Department had Publisher Rounsevell indicted on five counts for criminal libel (TIME...
These findings may have satisfied the Miami Chamber of Commerce, the Coral Gables Post of the American Legion, and other horrified groups which demanded investigations. But the verdict did not satisfy the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose Commander-in-Chief, James E. Van Zandt, at Washington indignantly cried "Whitewash!", demanded that the President "punish officials responsible," declared that three times before the hurricane hit, veterans' committees had asked their superiors to be evacuated, only to be repulsed by guards...
...with the French Army and has been editor of the St. Paul Daily News for the past 16 years, brought half a dozen furloughed Department of Justice operatives to town to expose malfeasance in the St. Paul police force. There was a grand jury hearing, followed by a whitewash delivered over the radio by the foreman just as the late John Dillinger was shooting his way out of a local apartment house. But the Daily News's agitation last year helped St. Paul elect a reform Mayor who appointed as Commissioner of Public Safety Henry Edward ("Ned") Warren...