Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations on the Oct. 24 cover story honoring Judge Harold R. Medina. It is certainly a fitting tribute to an eminent American who . . . patiently endured humiliation, vilification and abuse...
...GUILTY MEN. JUDGE MEDINA'S . . . COURT GENERALSHIP ... RECALLS TO MIND JUSTICE CARDOZO'S WORDS: "THE PROPHET AND THE MARTYR DO NOT SEE THE HOOTING THRONG. THEIR EYES ARE FIXED ON THE ETERNITIES." ALL AMERICA SHOULD HONOR JUDGE MEDINA FOR GIVING THE HOOTING COMMUNISTS AN EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN JUSTICE, DIGNITY AND PATIENCE...
...Government has made a grave mistake in prosecuting and imprisoning the eleven bosses of the Communist Party of this great nation. The Smith Act of 1940 was never meant to be so misused as to restrict and virtually outlaw the belief and teachings of any free-thinking American political group. This action by bigoted Americans may well establish a malignant precedent of outlawing (or of purging) all individuals or groups of individuals who show disfavor with or oppose the political leaders of this land...
...oceanic calm of Oxford remains undisturbed by my article in Isis magazine [TIME, Oct. 24]. Americans write me, however, and urge me to "give the Limeys another smack." They are determined to picture me as a wholesome American youth pointing the finger of shame at drunken, decadent Oxford. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am no youth, and Oxford is not decadent...
...story last week of Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston, W. Va. is a good example of the kind of coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. A fortnight ago the biggest Charleston symphony audience...