Word: catletts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy watched vigilantly as Hiss's lawyers called an elderly colored woman to the witness stand. She was Mrs. Claudie ("Clytie") Catlett, onetime Hiss housemaid. The Hisses, she testified casually, had once given her children "an old typewriter...
Excited murmuring filled the courtroom. The point was obvious: if the defense could prove that the Hisses did not even have the typewriter when the documents were typed (in the early months of 1938), Hiss's case would look fairly secure. Mrs. Catlett's young son, Mike, recalled that it was an old Woodstock. From under the defense table, Defense Lawyer Edward McLean dramatically dragged a battered machine. Was this it? Mike pecked at a couple of keys and decided that...
...audiences of 1,000 a night last week in Vancouver, B.C. Most of his band, like Armstrong, had been musically famous for more than two decades, though they were only in their early 405; Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Drummer Sidney ("Big Sid") Catlett. The only youngster, 25-year-old Arvell Shaw played bass fiddle. When Louis and his All-Stars swung into West End Blues, Confessin' or Rockin' Chair, it was hard for oldtimers to believe that Louis or jazz were ever better...
...important face was missing from the picture: the stern, lined face of George Catlett Marshall (departing Under Secretary Robert Lovett stood in for him). Truman had already taken his leave of Marshall, in characteristic fashion. Ducking out from the White House after lunch one day last week, he flew down to Pinehurst, N.C. for a chatty visit with Marshall, who did not know he was coming. "I needed to see the Secretary of State," said the President, "so I went...
Then Mr. Truman exploded a bomb in the State Department which would cause vibrations not only on the Hill, but around the capital and in all the capitals of the world. He announced the resignation of faithful, forceful George Catlett Marshall, and nominated as his successor Dean Gooderham Acheson...