Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with 18 witnesses from Italy to swear to Icardi's guilt. But the only two witnesses to get to the stand were two Congressmen, Missouri Republican Dewey Short and Subcommittee Chairman W. Sterling Cole, Republican of New York. Under close questioning by Icardi's defense counsel, Edward Bennett Williams, 35 (who defended Joe McCarthy during the 1954 Senate censure hearings), Chairman Cole recollected that he had discussed possible perjury proceedings against Icardi before Icardi gave his testimony to the subcommittee...
Thus becalmed, the Congress last week: ¶ Received, from a House civil service subcommittee, a "code of ethics" for federal employees, which Florida's Democratic Representative Charles E. Bennett described as approving gifts like "a sack of potatoes," but not "star sapphires and diamonds...
Clipped Bond. In Long Beach, Calif., arrested for writing checks without the money to cover them, Robert E. Bennett was jailed after remarking, as the court fixed his bond at $1,000, "Can I give you a check for the bail, judge...
...dread the prospect," says the current issue of the Protestant fortnightly Christianity and Crisis. The prospect: Evangelist Billy Graham's next crusade in Manhattan, scheduled for some time in 1957. Christianity and Crisis, edited by Theologians Reinhold Niebuhr and John C. Bennett, gives its reasons...
...cross-questioning, Marshall led J. Jefferson Bennett, assistant to President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, to admit that the protective efforts of the university could hardly be called vigorous. No students were arrested. The mob threatening Autherine had been told only to "move," and the fire truck on the scene had not been used to hose down and thus disperse the crowd. Assistant to the Dean of Students Henry Sikir agreed that he had seen no action taken against the mob other than "talking to them." Asked Marshall: "Have you reported [any student] in that group to anybody?" Said Sikir...