Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Robes. It was a court in shirtsleeves. There was nothing about it that was austere or remote. It was earnestly social-minded, close to workaday problems, generally measured its decision by the utilitarian yardstick of "the greatest good for the greatest number." The Nine were no respecters of economic and business traditions...
Harold Burton, ex-mayor of Cleveland, ex-Senator from Ohio, the lone Republican, a close friend of Harry Truman who appointed him. An amiable man, outpaced by his hard-running colleagues, generally regarded as the least effective justice on the court...
...liquidation of Rajk, Kostov, Xoxe and hundreds of smaller fry were signs of the times: Moscow's men were trying to close the ranks...
...Arab refugees. The Israelis resisted all attempts to get them to take back the refugees, finally offered a compromise under which they would accept 230,000 of them provided Egypt would cede the narrow 25-mile-long coastal area around Gaza. (Nobody has even got around to making a close estimate of how many refugees are involved; guesses vary from...
...They just peeled off their coats and went on with the job. In the past eight weeks Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Tory Leader George Drew had crisscrossed the Dominion in an appeal for votes. Despite all their oratory, the country's political temperature had stayed close to normal. It apparently would remain that way until election...