Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Chinese radio, the State Department pieced together the humiliating story. After holding the U.S. consulate members incommunicado for nearly a month (TIME, Nov. 21), the Communists had staged a hasty "trial," and convicted Ward and his aides of "brutally assaulting" a Chinese servant. The Reds' kangaroo court sentenced the five to jail for three to six months, imposed a stiff fine, then suspended the sentences and ordered them deported...
Vice Consul William N. Stokes and forced him to watch the trial of ten Japanese, Chinese and Koreans accused of "spying" for the U.S. No Americans were on trial, but that did not bother the people's court. Its verdict: the entire staff of the U.S. consulate would be deported along with Angus Ward...
...concealed dismay of Connecticut's regular Democrats, his old friend and partner Chester Bowles had decided on Benton, an independent and member of no political party, to succeed Republican Raymond E. Baldwin, who leaves the U.S. Senate this month for a seat on the Connecticut supreme court. Unless the regulars could stop the appointment, the firm of Benton & Bowles would be back in business again...
Jackson was dissenting sharply from a Supreme Court ruling last week, disbarring an aged patent lawyer from practice before the U.S. Patent Office because he had submitted a ghostwritten article as evidence. He was also pointing up an old Washington custom: ghostwriters had become as much a part of the furniture of modern government as the Mimeograph machine. Many a legislator was as helpless without his ghost as Jack Benny without his gagmen. They appeared on congressional payrolls as "secretaries," in executive departments as "administrative assistants" and "information specialists." And on the Supreme Court itself, some Justices' legal styles...
...Senator from South Carolina, War Mobilizer and Supreme Court Justice, James F. Byrnes was one of the strong right arms that helped Franklin D. Roosevelt fashion his New Deal. After Roosevelt's death, shrewd, spry Jimmy Byrnes stayed on in Washington, became Harry Truman's first Secretary of State. Last week, Jimmy Byrnes was busy at his newest enthusiasm-heaping hot coals on the Fair Deal as "creeping but ever advancing socialistic programs." Fit as a fiddle at 70, Jimmy Byrnes also provided his own story of the heart attack which precipitated his departure from the Truman Cabinet...