Word: franked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facing the fight of his life for re-election in 1950, Taft felt encouraged. Despite the brassy threats of organized labor, no one with a chance of outselling him had yet appeared. The Democrats' popular Governor Frank Lausche had already all but taken himself out of the race. Cleveland's Mayor Tom Burke, the only other Democrat with a solid chance of beating Taft, was showing a marked reluctance to get into the fight. Taft felt so encouraged that he remarked to a friend: "I feel too good too early...
After the court recessed last June, Wiley Rutledge took his family to Maine for a vacation. There he learned of the death of his close colleague, Frank Murphy (TIME, Aug. 1). And there, last week, in a tiny hospital at York Village where he had lain for eight days in a periodic coma, Wiley Blount Rutledge, 55, died of cerebral hemorrhage...
Justice Rutledge's vote usually went with the so-called liberal bloc-Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black and the late Frank Murphy. Often Rutledge and Murphy, in their passion for individual liberties, found themselves paired in lonely, bitter dissent...
...Sake? His death raised a delicate problem for President Truman, faced with the necessity of appointing a second new justice within two months. Under ordinary circumstances the appointment almost certainly would go to Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath, a Roman Catholic, who had hoped to get Catholic Frank Murphy's seat but dutifully took the U.S. attorney generalship when Harry Truman chose Tom C. Clark...
...seven years ago, the University of Notre Dame campus experienced the nearest thing to an earthquake it had known in 107 years of history. By order of suave, iron-willed Football Coach Frank Leahy, the revered Notre Dame shift, perfected by the great Knute Rockne and immortalized by such Notre Dame heroes as Christy Flanagan and the Four Horsemen, was unceremoniously junked. To replace it, Leahy wheeled in the T-formation...