Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Warwick's fat parcel of New World land known as Connecticut turned out to be fatter than anyone suspected back in 1630. The Earl's Crown charter spoke with magnificent vagueness of a strip 40 leagues wide extending "throughout all the main lands . . . from the western [Atlantic] ocean to the South Seas [the Pacific]. A century and a half later, with a sound respect for geography and the realities of U.S. politics, Connecticut bowed to congressional insistence and ceded her western claims, with one exception. The exception was the Western Reserve, a 120-mile strip bordering...
...assigned himself to the Hiss trial. He had been recommended for a judgeship by Tammany Hall and by Bronx Boss Ed Flynn; nominated by Harry Truman, and confirmed by the 81st Congress-though Kaufman was refused endorsement by the Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. His appointment had been supported by one group-the New York County Lawyers' Association; the chairman of the judiciary committee of that group was Hiss's lawyer, Lloyd Paul Stryker...
...Connecticut's municipal courts, the scales of justice teetered crazily. With two complete sets of judges on the job-those appointed by the last Republican regime and a new batch named by Democratic Governor Chester Bowles-the state had exactly twice as many judges as it could...
...committed. But neither Clytie Catlett and her sons, uncertain witnesses at best, nor the Hisses were able definitely to remember just when the Catletts got the machine. Pat Catlett remembered that when he got it, he took it forthwith to a typewriter repair shop at K Street and Connecticut Avenue. Last week a Washington real-estate agent testified that the shop was not opened for business until Sept. 15, 1938, more than six months after the documents were typed...
...Baldwin of Connecticut...