Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chester Bowles had decided on Benton, an independent and member of no political party, to succeed Republican Raymond E. Baldwin, who leaves the U.S. Senate this month for a seat on the Connecticut supreme court. Unless the regulars could stop the appointment, the firm of Benton & Bowles would be back in business again...
Byrnes did not get back until December. He went to see President Truman and formally resigned. "I had to wait a couple of weeks until Marshall could get back [from China]. So I went to the Naval Hospital again and they made another test. After they got through, a doctor came and said he did not know what to make of it. Everything was now all right. I had not taken any of the pills they gave me or anything. I haven't bothered about my health since...
Their accuser, Whittaker Chambers, quietly went back over his old story: that Alger Hiss, a trusted government official facing trial for the second time on a charge of perjury, had fed secret documents into ex-Communist Courier Chambers' spy ring. But to the familiar mosaic he added a few sharp, new fragments...
...Bell. With almost melancholy indifference, Chambers began once again to recite the drab facts of his early career. In the closing hours of the trial's fifth day, Cross brought the questioning back to the chief and only really relevant aspect of the case: the old relationship of the two men. How had Chambers returned the documents to Hiss's house, as he stated, sometimes as late as 2 a.m.? How had he gotten in? Said Chambers: "I believe I had a key." He might simply have rung the bell, he was not sure. But Hiss...
Scott closed with the prayer of a Herero chief: "O Lord, help us who roam about . . . Give us back a dwelling place...