Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every American should read your article, it's . . . very understandable...
...virtuoso performance. Stryker thundered and whispered. He banged the jury rail, sketched imaginary portraits, nourished a roll of microfilm until it snapped into a tangled mess. He invoked Almighty God, motherhood and the American flag. He accused the FBI of "impairing" defense witnesses. He pronounced the Government's star witness, Whittaker Chambers, a "traitor, thief, liar, perjurer, enemy of his country and a hypocrite," likened him to a coiled scorpion and a germ in a bottle of milk...
...jury's 8-to-4 vote for conviction frankly came as a surprise to me." Illinois' Freshman Congressman Harold Velde, an ex-FBI agent, joined in: he cited six specific examples* of Judge Kaufman's actions which he said "bordered on misconduct." Nixon thought the Un-American Activities Committee (of which he is a member) should investigate the judge. Many a lawyer, in & out of Congress, who had his own reservations on the handling of the trial, had bigger reservations about allowing Congress to invade the province of the judiciary...
...seven Tokyo Roses who had broadcast to U.S. troops, she was the only American. Her real name was Iva Toguri. Born in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, 1916, she was like most first-generation Japanese-Americans, more American than Japanese. She went to movies and the races, hero-worshiped James Stewart, as a coed at U.C.L.A. noisily rooted for the football team...
Mencken has been a prodigious workman with a fine regard for the craft of writing. Even the "professors" he loved to pummel had to cheer his massive, scholarly and readable American Language as the best thing of its kind. At another extreme, his autobiographical books (Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days) are among the most engaging of any in U.S. writing. During the past decade his writings and utterances have tended toward peevish and irresponsible flailings of men and politics. But he has seldom hit below the belt and has never used the stab in the back. Whatever his justifications...