Word: davises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside of the fact that he is a movie comedian and worth more than $10 million, Lloyd is a typical U.S. citizen. He works hard, rides a succession of hobbies (old cars, microscopy) with grim preoccupation, loves sports, and has been happily married to the same wife for 26 years...
After he returned to Georgia to practice law, he was engaged to defend a 19-year-old Communist named Angelo Herndon, who had been arrested for leading an unemployment demonstration. "This case," said Davis, "was the turning point of my whole life. In the course of trying it, I was...
The next year Davis joined the party, moved to New York City and began rising in the party hierarchy. Along the way he learned the tricks of the Communist game. Last week, the day after testifying effectively as a person, he became a party automaton again, using all the old...
* Communist Davis may have remembered wrong. The trial judge insisted that he used no such language himself, although he permitted witnesses to do so.
World Citizen Garry Davis had an ambitious scheme to defy national boundaries, but it fell through. He was set to address a meeting in England from a hovering helicopter, but all available French helicopters, officials assured him, were too busy spraying insecticide against beetles.