Word: evens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even though we could take a poll," the court mused, "... a majority of the votes of those in prisons and brothels, for instance, ought scarcely to outweigh the votes of accredited churchgoers." Besides, there were precedents: aliens living in common-law marriage had been admitted. "We have now to say whether it makes a critical difference that the alien's lapses are casual, concupiscent and promiscuous, but not adulterous." In fact, concluded Judge Hand, he and his two colleagues did not see any such difference, and ruled that Schmidt should be made a U.S. citizen...
Hoffman was calling for integration at a time when the split between controlled-economy Britain and the relatively free-economy Continent was wider than ever. The French and their continental friends were still fuming over the fact that the British had devalued the pound without even consulting them (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.). They accused the U.S. of granting Britain the privileges of a specially favored nation, at the expense of Western Europe's unity. Hoffman tried to deflect some of this resentment. He was taking a crack at the British when he called upon the governments to give...
...atrocities . . . thereby violated the Laws of War." This charge, described by the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge as "vagueness if not vacuity," laid down a new principle-that a commander is a criminal if his men violate the Laws of War, whether he ordered the violations or even knew of them...
Reel quotes an Army lawyer's comment : "Under such a principle, I suppose, even MacArthur should be tried." . Objection. A military commission of five U.S. generals* sat in judgment on Yamashita. They had no legal background. The commission seemed to feel that defense objections, made for the record, wasted time and smacked of insubordination. Once, in a smiling but meaning aside to Reel, one of the general-judges remarked: "You fellows should talk to us, not to the record. You'll get along better...
Prize Packages. There were other passengers on Suzanne's plane, whose plans and hopes for the future were inevitably and inextricably intertwined with those of the earthbound: dapper, 67-year-old Bernard Boutet de Monvel, the famed portraitist son of an even more famed illustrator father (Filles et Garcons, Jeanne d'Arc); lovely Kate Kamen and her shrewd, spectacled husband Kay, the man responsible for bringing Mickey Mouse watches, stuffed Donald Ducks and other Disney-fathered creatures into millions of U.S. nurseries. There was dynamic young (30) Ginette Neveu who in 1947, according to one critic, stepped "practically...