Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Robert ("Old Muley") Doughton immediately drew for his House Ways & Means Committee a heartrending picture of the Administration straining every nerve to make every penny count. Unimpressed, the Committee came up at week's end with several minor amendments which would add a minuscule $1 to $1.5 billion to Federal revenue...
...wigged Crown Counsel and the Defense Attorneys. Their robes were black. Beyond them lolled a dozen U.S. newsgatherers and the 105 black & white citizens of Nassau who had come early enough to get seats. At one side of the shabby, formal room sat the prisoner at the bar, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny, in his mahogany cage. Opposite were the jurors, alternately intent and bored...
...Count "Freddy" was standing trial for the murder of his father-in-law. Sir Harry Oakes, 200 times a millionaire, who lost his life in a swirl of head blows, flames, lightning flashes, blood and burning feathers the night of July 7 at his luxurious villa, Westbourne, outside Nassau. Freddy, who had pleaded not guilty, asked that reporters call him Mister, not Count...
...hearings last summer was presented again: the singed hairs on De Marigny's hands, arms, face and chest; the mark of his little finger on the smoke-smudged white screen that stood by Sir Harry's bed; the light that Neighbor Howard Lightbourne saw burning in the Count's bedroom that night; the fact that the shirt Freddy wore has never turned up and the wild things various police officers heard Freddy say in the days following the crime...
Trial Balance. If Badoglio's cobelligerent Italy was a military plus and an economic minus, politically it was a plain enigma. In declaring war against Germany, Badoglio said that representatives of all political parties will be asked to participate in the Government. But liberal Count Carlo Sforza, on the eve of entering Italy, was still saying he could not enter a Cabinet headed by Badoglio...