Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more imposing than the statistics was the fact that the case had only begun. It would be months before U.S. justice rendered its final verdict. Legal questions posed by the trial engaged lawyers, lawmakers, journalists. Far more would have to be decided than the fate of eleven sworn and cynical enemies of U.S. democracy. Enemies though they were, they had forced U.S. democracy to make a worried examination of itself. Men asked: Wasn't the very trial a violation of the basic rights of U.S. citizens...
...final delaying tactic, McCarran had departed for Europe for further "investigation" of the D.P. situation, and sent back a warning that "this country will be inundated with a flood of aliens." Michigan's Homer Ferguson patiently refuted his arguments, pointed out that 134,000 was scarcely an inundation, amounted to less than a fifth of one percent of the labor force. But McCarran's allies carried on. For nearly six hours, Washington's garrulous lightweight, Harry P. Cain, held the floor with a low-grade filibuster. The D.P. opponents talked on, counting on the dwindling attendance...
...infidelities. When a pupil suddenly floods him with happiness by bringing him a present, his wife promptly points out that the gift is doubtless really a bribe. At the end, thanks to the prodding of his wife's rebellious lover, Crocker-Harris shows signs of rebelling too-a final twist of theater in a work that, despite its realistic trappings, is actually all theater, even though it is effectively contrived and played...
...period, with Notre Dame leading 33-0 and Leahy's second-string backs in the game, Tulane recovered its equilibrium long enough to score a touchdown. Leahy sent his triggermen in again for another quick punch, ended the game with his second-and third-stringers in easy command. Final score: Notre Dame 46, Tulane 7. Tulane had committed the grievous sin of looking too strong too far ahead of kickoff time. With all of' its opponents pointing as usual for Notre Dame, it looked a bit as though South Bend had broken its customary policy for once...
...Haven, Conn., Cornell rolled up the highest score (48-14) ever recorded against Yale in the Yale Bowl. CJ At Berkeley, Calif., Halfback Frank Brunk of the University of California caught a Trojan kickoff in his end zone, ran 102 yards to a touchdown in the final quarter and upset Southern California...