Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen, in the main, were resentful of tough talk from the White House. But Harry Truman had found that he could not count on friendships and personal popularity on the Hill. Many wise Washingtonians thought that the President had worked himself into a position from which strong assertion of leadership would now be more difficult than it would have been at his Administration's beginning. In many a score book this was the one big error of Harry Truman's half year, and meant more trouble ahead...
...Third Count. Joyce's defense counsel (provided free under the Poor Persons Act) set up a simple and formidable defense: that Joyce was not a British subject. First Secretary H. E. Stebbins of the U.S. Embassy in London testified that Joyce's Irish father had become a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1894 (which, under U.S. law, would automatically make William a U.S. citizen...
Faced by this evidence that Joyce was not British, the presiding justice threw out the first two counts of the indictment, which were based on a presumption of British citizenship. But there was a third count: that Joyce behaved as a traitor in Germany between Sept. 18, 1939 and July 2, 1940, when his British passport expired. The prosecution argued that during this period, since he enjoyed the protection of a British passport, he owed allegiance to the British Crown, and that he had betrayed that allegiance...
Toasting the Caudillo in San Sebastian last week, General Juan Yague, Chief of the Sixth Region, said that Franco could count on Army support when "the evolution which is necessary is effected." By "evolution" General Yague meant a restoration of the monarchy. Although he fought on Franco's side in the Civil War, Yague had damned Axis intrusion in that war and urged a lenient peace for the Loyalists. In the midst of World War II he had spent some months under house arrest, apparently for monarchist activity...
...Cross, the Catholics, the U.S. (he sold a half-million dollars' worth of Liberty Bonds). The Church made him a Papal Count; his records and his concerts made him the best-paid concert singer in history (total earnings...