Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What am I supposed to have done?' I demanded. The commissar quelled me with a glance. 'I'm asking the questions,' he said . . . thy name, birthplace . . . How many times in the U.S.S.R.? Over what frontiers? . . . Why should any American go back & forth to the U.S.S.R. except for subversive reasons? He had no concept of the life of a journalist...
...Europe. And we should never have gone to Bonn. But if we want to see Germany a free and stable country, we must take the risk of giving Germany's democrats-such as they are-a reasonably strong government that can command some respect and get things done. To move in that direction the Bonn Assembly must succeed; it must establish a West German state presently integrated with Western Europe and looking toward reunion with Eastern Germany in a Europe-East and West-that is free...
...done everything we know To relieve them of their dough, But the blighters seem to still have plenty more...
Last week, in a London court, bewigged Lord Chief Justice Lord Goddard gave his stern verdict: the Mirror was "a disgrace to English journalism . . . justice and fair play . . . There has never been a case ... of such a scandalous and wicked character. This has been done, not as an error of judgment, but as a matter of policy, pandering to sensationalism [to increase] circulation . . ." The Mirror was fined $40,000. Bolam was sentenced to three months in Brixton Prison (where Haigh is waiting trial), the first editor to be imprisoned under the law in 48 years...
...drifted home again to exhibit what he had done. He ran right into the revolution against Dictator Diaz. The same week Diego's exhibit opened, Francisco Madero proclaimed Diaz a usurper and, with the help of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, began the seven-month job of forcing the aging dictator out of Mexico. After Diego's show closed, he lit out for the open country, carrying messages to the revolutionaries...