Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a generous mood, the House last week approved a bill to give $1,250,000 a year in pay boosts to Cabinet officers and some 240 other department and agency heads. Cabinet members would be raised from $15,000 to $25,000.
Lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker, who commands some of the highest fees in the business (up to $75,000 a case), was going into his big act: the summation for the defense in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss, onetime bright young man of the State Department.
Orchestral Theme. At first Stryker talked almost into the jurors' faces until he was apparently warned off by his colleagues. They observed that the jurors were not warming up to the performance. After this Stryker stood back. There was only one witness in the whole world who said Hiss...
The FBI's expert had testified that the State Department documents had been typed on the Hiss typewriter; he could tell by the formations of the letter "G" for example. "You can look at all the 'Gs' you want," Stryker snorted, "they look good to me." He...
The universities, Sir Walter charges, are trying to renounce their responsibility for the education of youth. Philosopher C.E.M. Joad, discussing The Crisis in the New Statesman and Nation, satirizes the university attitude: "You want an atom bomb? Right! We will make it for you. But we really can't...