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...Winner. In Louisville, after losing steadily in a poker game, James Calvert finally walked out in disgust, returned a few minutes later, pointed a shotgun at the players, made off with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...Rights is besieged, ancient liberties infringed." He did, however, mention Attorney General Herbert Brownell, "the chief law-enforcement officer of the nation, the very embodiment of our concept of justice, [who] has even imputed disloyalty or Communist sympathy to a former President while our allies . . . listen in bewilderment and disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Voice of Opposition | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires, or polluting the sweetness of June, that stench . . . even in a cruel age, left behind it a memory and a disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Mary | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Jersey Democratic leaders generally agreed on why they won the governorship: "Public disgust" over the scandals that had touched the New Jersey G.O.P. The last straw, they thought, was Republican Candidate Troast's admission that he had asked New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey Fay. Winner Meyner (rhymes with signer) disagreed heartily with the interpretation that got him headlines across the nation. He thought he had won on local issues, didn't think his victory was any reflection on the Eisenhower Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word from Jersey | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...underpaid, overtaxed wage earner, it is difficult to describe my disgust at reading ''A Federal Sales Tax" [Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1953 | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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