Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Alabama law school in the early 1940s. Each served in World War II and came home with decorations. Each became a judge. And it was in that capacity, somehow symbolic of the stresses under which the law has come in the South, that U.S. District Judge Frank Minis Johnson Jr. in Montgomery last week ordered Alabama Circuit Judge George Corley Wallace to show cause "if any there be" why he should not be punished for contempt of court...
Those consequences may be considerable. U.S. Judge Johnson, 40, a Republican, inherited the nickname "Straight Edge" from his great-grandfather, Fayette County's first Republican sheriff and a man widely known for his directness and his sharp cutting edge. Frank Johnson, appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1955, inherits the traits as well as the name. Says one Alabama lawyer: "If you have a good case, you don't have to worry. The judge will rule with you. If you don't have a case, you don't have to worry either...
Such is the judge George Wallace must face late this month-and in Alabama's troubled times, Frank Johnson may have to punish his old friend with a fine of up to $1,000 and a jail sentence of up to six months...
Communists, strong in the new labor organization but weak elsewhere, will try to stir anti-U.S. hatreds. Che Guevara, a frank proCommunist, will give Communism all the help he can in the new army. A Communist-lining journalist, Carlos Franqui, is in a powerful spot as editor of the official rebel newspaper, Revolución. But Cubans know the U.S. too well to swallow the usual Communist whoppers. Any party that wins free elections in Cuba will doubtless be in the Western camp...
Rich turned out to be Dalton (Johnny Got His Gun) Trumbo. one of the original "Hollywood Ten'' writers who refused to testify at the 1947 hearings on Communism in the movie industry. Said Producer Frank King, who had stoutly insisted that Robert Rich was "a young guy in Spain with a beard'': "We have an obligation to our stockholders to buy the best scripts we can. Trumbo brought us The Brave One and we bought...