Word: bailiff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hiqh-Button Boots. The son of the bailiff of a large farm in the Santa Comba Dão country of central Portugal, Salazar studied for a law degree at the University of Coimbra and stayed on to become a professor of economics and finance. In 1928 he became Finance Minister with extremely broad powers to control the economy and government as well, but he still looked like a provincial schoolteacher in his bowler hat and high-button boots...
After 15 weeks, the trial of the Chicago Seven has lost much of its dramatic tension. One of the three obstreperous spectators carried from the courtroom last week bit a bailiff's hand, but for the most part even the antic outbursts have deflated. Some time in the next couple of months the jurors will have to sort through the tedium and the hijinks to confront one crucial question: whether they believe the prosecution testimony of undercover agents who swore that there had indeed been a conspiracy to incite riots. The verdict will depend far more on that than...