Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ways." Last week the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan added another note. According to the Tribune, Chief Justice Warren in 1957 blackballed an invitation to Vice President Nixon from the American Bar Association to attend the celebrated London meeting at which more than 3,000 U.S. and British lawyers examined the basis of the common law (TIME, Aug. 5, 1957). Said Warren, according to the Tribune, to David Maxwell, then president of the A.B.A.: "If you let that fellow in, count me out." The A.B.A. board of governors studied the unusual situation, decided not to issue the invitation...
...Prasad Koirala was born at Banaras, India in 1914, where his articulate professional father had fled the wrath of the Ranas. Graduating from the University of Calcutta with a law degree, Koirala joined Nehru and Gandhi in the fight for Indian independence, was jailed for 2^ years by the British. With the downfall of the Ranas, he returned to Nepal with his older half brother, M. P. Koirala, over whom he later triumphed in a struggle for power...
...Castro's ambassador said that Trujillo has organized an arms-buying network across Europe, North Africa and the U.S.* Trujillo is believed to have agents and transshippers in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Tunis, London, New York and Rome, negotiating for bazookas, bazooka ammunition, tanks, armored cars, field artillery, shells, even British Vampire jets. He is also said to be recruiting mercenaries, including some from Franco's Spain, who are flown via Bermuda, manifested as farm laborers. Reacting...
...circuit -Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Erroll Garner, the Modern Jazz Quartet, et al.-at fees ranging up to $4,000 a package. The festival is extravagantly promoted, strenuously recorded and religiously re ported by some 500 members of "the working press" (including this year a Massachusetts optometrist representing the British Jazz Journal...
Fleet Street's ink was running dry, and throughout the British Isles newspapers and periodicals were closed or closing. Reason: Great Britain's worst printing strike in more than 30 years. Started last month, when members of ten printers' unions walked off their jobs, the strike last week spread to 38 firms making ink for the nation's presses, including those of London's mass-circulation dailies...