Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Party; they had quit, disillusioned, 3½ years later. During the war he worked on atomic projects in California, at Oak Ridge and at the Los Alamos laboratory run by his brother Robert, and had received a letter of praise from Major General Leslie R. Groves, wartime chief of the atomic-bomb program...
...stood precisely at noon when the court crier raised his sepulchral voice: "Oyez, oyez . . . draw near . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." Red curtains parted and into the hushed chamber walked the black-gowned justices of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Led by sad-faced Chief Justice Vinson, they took their high-backed seats, variously shaped and padded to fit their various curves...
Roosevelt during the troubled days of World War II, a formidable poker player, above all, a man of diplomacy who was appointed Chief Justice to squelch the old feud between Black and Jackson which exploded in public...
History to Make. There was general agreement that this court was above average. What this really meant was that there were above average justices on it. The absence of a strong disciplinarian like the late Chief Justice Hughes contributed to the haggling among the justices; so did the ever-growing complexity of the problems which they were called upon to solve...
...Good (College) Life isn't the only thing that's over. The world, as most of today's seniors know, is full of people who have agreed on orthodox ways of living and thinking, and who make it their chief concern to see that everyone follows them without a quibble. They stand ready to punish the unorthodox with varying degrees of severity, and continually join battle with any cases of non-conformity which protect and nourish the rebels. The most important sanctuaries for unorthodoxy are the colleges and universities, and in the past few years, many of them have been...