Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stryker paused to conjure up a picture of Toscanini at Carnegie Hall. "Now in a good orchestration," he declared, "there is always a theme. Perhaps the first violins take up the theme first . . . You sit back and soon [Toscanini] is bowing and the audience is a pulp." Said Stryker: "I pray I can stand in front of this orchestra of justice and take the theme of 'if you don't believe Chambers, then we have no case...
...Face. There were, he continued, three uncontradicted facts: 1) that Chambers had in his possession copies of secret State Department documents; 2) that these documents were all dated in the first three months of 1938; 3) that all but one of the typed documents were copied on the Hiss typewriter. With all "that country bumpkin stuff," the defense attorney had refuted none of these points...
...broad-shouldered Negro told a solemn story in a Manhattan federal courtroom last week. Manhattan Councilman Benjamin J. Davis, one of the eleven Communists on trial for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force, was the third defendant to take the stand. He was the first to explain with any degree of conviction how and why some Americans become Communists...
...freshman Senator, the new arrival had an impressive background. As a top-flight international lawyer, official Republican Party foreign-policy adviser and member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, junior Senator Dulles already had a reputation that many a senior Senator would never attain. In his first senatorial statement, Dulles announced his support of the Atlantic pact and an arms program to back it up, but reserved decision on how much should be spent on arms. Dulles will serve until December 1. He told reporters that he had "no expectation" of becoming a candidate in the special November...
Fluttering Moth. At Sing Sing, the weakest always goes first at a multiple execution, so frail, runty little Cockeye Dunn preceded Squint to the chair. Guards had just wheeled Cockeye's body into the adjoining autopsy room when Squint entered at 11:08 p.m. He looked calmly at the big oak chair with its eight black harness-leather straps, eased his fat hulk...