Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman was seized with one of those humane impulses which exasperate bureaucrats but delight citizens. In a newspaper he read about the plight of Mrs. John S. Power, widow of a civilian economist employed by the Army in Berlin. Ten months after her husband's death in a plane crash in Paris, Mrs. Power had still not received his insurance. The President ordered the Veterans Administration to get hopping. The VA grumbled, but hopped. Then the President boarded the Williamsburg for a daylong, family cruise across the green gulf waters to the Dry Tortugas...
...sentence was death-by hanging. Earlier, greeting his U.S. defense counsel, Tojo had said: "I am prepared to meet my Maker. If the verdict is against me, I shall not ask for my life, and I do not want you to ask MacArthur for my life." When he had heard the sentence, he said it was a "victors' trial"-meaning, what else could a sensible Japanese expect? Outside, under a tree, his wife and daughter wept...
Droning on steadily for seven days, Australia's ruddy, silver-haired Sir William Webb, the tribunal's chairman, read the verdict. One by one, the prisoners were called in for sentencing. For six others besides Tojo, it was death; for 16 more, life imprisonment...
None of the defendants quailed; one or two were so old and infirm that they hardly seemed to know what was happening. When quiet, grey ex-Premier Koki Hirota heard his death sentence, he closed his eyes, then turned to look at his weeping family in the gallery. It was the last time he would see them. Japanese newsmen, who had not expected death for Hirota, murmured: "Hidoi! Hidoi!" (harsh, harsh...
...increase in distance from New England. In New York and Paris thousands of sympathizers rioted in the streets, but in Boston the fear of radicalism and the belief that Massachusetts justice was being hamstrung by "foreign" propaganda, caused a large majority of the people to favor the death penalty for the defendants...