Word: drummonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...locale, to be sure, is unspecified in the play and the names are fictitious, but there is never for a moment any pretense of fiction. John T. Scopes, the young schoolmaster who violated Tennessee law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is called Bertram Gates; Henry Drummond, the lawyer who defends him, is clearly Clarence Darrow; and by whatever name, the archdefender of fundamentalism would be William Jennings Bryan...
Daniel M'Naghten. a Glasgow wood turner, thought that Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel was persecuting him. Then he confused Peel with his secretary, Edward Drummond. So M'Naghten shot and killed Drummond, Jan. 20, 1843. The jury's verdict: "not guilty"-by reason of insanity. The case so shook Britain that the judicial committee of the House of Lords suggested a hard and fast rule: to prove "insanity," a defendant must show-that he was either "laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality...
...Reid and her two sons, Editor Whitelaw ("Whitey"), 41, and Vice President Ogden ("Brownie"), 29, are banking on selection rather than mass ("More news in less time"), and the drawing power of probably the best collection of columnists of any U.S. paper (Walter Lippmann, Joe and Stewart Alsop, Roscoe Drummond and David Lawrence for brains; Red Smith, John Crosby and Art Buchwald...
Then, in August 1952, three camping Britons-famed Food Expert Sir Jack Drummond. his wife and his ten-year-old daughter Elizabeth-were found brutally slain on the Dominici farm. The murder became a cause célébre (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952). Biochemist Sir Jack was renowned for his part in setting the nutritional minimums for Britain's wartime rations; the failure to find his killer was an international humiliation for the French police. After long and confused police investigations, Gaston Dominici was carted off to prison. Last week the mahogany-faced old peasant, now 77, stood...
COLUMNIST ROSCOE DRUMMOND, Washington bureau chief of the Republican New York Herald Tribune : THE more the Administration's explainers explain the dismissal of John Paton Davies as a "security risk" on the ground that he showed bad "judgment," principally while serving in China ten years ago, the less it satisfies many in Washington who listen to it. Mr. Davies has devoted his whole adult life to the Foreign Service. The latest security board to hear the evidence - eight previous security boards having cleared him - found Mr. Davies completely loyal, completely devoted to the United States and never imprudent with...