Word: barred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominees for a federal judgeship until the Senator, as though it were his own idea, finally recommended the name Rogers had wanted all along. This ability to work with Congress paid historic dividends last summer, when it was Rogers who-while Brownell was attending the American Bar Association meeting in Europe-negotiated with House and Senate leaders to arrive at the civil rights bill finally passed into...
...County kingdom, reputedly decided who could or could not construct a new housing development. Expanding in 1943 to catch some of Roosevelt Raceway's runaway revenue, he raked in kickbacks from nearly everybody, erected the Labor Lyceum, containing a meeting hall, restaurant and Long Island's biggest bar (where union members spent liberally to stay in his good graces), had his union help build him a lavish home...
...passing cyclist tossed a grenade into the Restaurant de 1'Avenir; another cyclist threw a grenade into a crowd of shoppers a few blocks away. At the Alberti Bar, a khaki-clad man stepped from a black car, slipped a leather-strapped machine gun from his shoulder, and me thodically began pumping bullets into the customers. On Avenue Kleber, an elegantly dressed man unlimbered a machine gun and raked customers and passers-by on the terrace of the Cafe de Palmarium. Total casualties in Sidi-bel-Abbes' 30 minutes of terror: eight dead, 17 wounded...
...police that the prisoner had approached him with an ice pick and stabbed him without justification. The defendant, however, said the victim had come at him first with a knife. It was only to defend, himself, the prisoner insited, that he picked up an ice pick from behind the bar...
...representative of the Voluntary Defenders believed the prisoner. He convinced the Boston lawyer who was handling the case to approve further investigation. The problem was to find a living witness. The defendant thought that there had been another man drinking at the bar where the murder had occurred. He didn't know his name--only the general area which the man frequented...