Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From pulpit and bench, from social workers and editorial writers, the U.S. regularly hears dire warnings about the growth of juvenile delinquency and the crisis this implies for urban civilization. Nonsense, says Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; the proportion of juvenile crime to urban population is no greater now than it was at the turn of the century. The interesting psychological question, she told a law-school forum at New York University last week, is: "Why are so many of our children not delinquent?" "Children have an amazing capacity to tolerate bad parents, poor...
...members of the subcommittee, including McCarthy, signed the report. But Ohio Republican George Bender, who holds the Senate seat previously occupied by Robert Taft, refused. The subcommittee, Bender pointed out, had found nothing to substantiate Joe McCarthy's screams that "a secret master" of the Pentagon had controlled the Peress case. The report, said Bender, should have spelled out the obvious fact that "not one iota of evidence was revealed to indicate any subversion, collusion, or Communist conspiracy concerned with the handling by the military of the Peress matter...
...millionaire businessman from Chicago-a capmaker. The Senators were trying to find out just what it was that caused his remarkable success in getting lush cap contracts from the Armed Services textile procurement office. Ohio's Senator George Bender suspected that the half-ton of smoked sturgeon that Lev had given to 38 procurement office employees might have helped-might, in fact, have been bribes. Astonished, Lev answered that the sturgeon could in no sense be considered a gift: "A gift is something a person wears...
Ohio's Bender wanted to know how Lev came to invent the foam-rubber rims he put in his caps. The capmaker said that the answer was not for ladies to hear. Bender insisted. Lev bent over the Senator and whispered loudly: "Made out of the same stuff they make falsies of." Standing jowl to jowl with Senator Bender, Lev put on an impromptu fashion show, whipping sample hats on and off his head. Bender was curious about Lev's "social" relationship with Mrs. Mella Hort, ex-contract administrator in the Defense Department who had testified that...
...Think So?" After four days of this, Bender was exasperated. "You evade!" he bellowed at Lev. "You hesitate, you delay . . . You're a very clever man!" Lev softened. "You think so?" he asked. But his delight vanished when Bender accused him of making "shoddy" hats for the Navy. Lev replied angrily: "I deserve at least from the committee I should get a congressional medal. Never mind accusing my workmanship!" When the subcommittee produced letters from his competitors complaining about the favors Lev mysteriously won from Government employees, the capmaker brushed them aside: "My competitors, they love...