Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discount. In Hamilton, Ont., the thief who stole Mrs. Frank Gnup's $50 set of golf clubs telephoned the next day and offered to sell everything back at half price...
...most active proteges and is backed by Labor's David Dubinsky. Holding the mantle of the Little Flower like a bullfighter's cape, he leaped into the arena, flapped it at the mayor-and then set hurriedly off after that well-scuffed political kigmy, Gambler Frank Costello. He implied heatedly that Costello ruled Tammany and that Tammany ruled O'Dwyer. He did not document the allegation, but for all that, it had a fine, wild ring to it, and it made lovely headlines...
Beefsteak & Cantaloupes. Then, turning on his opponent, he portentously berated him for not discussing national issues, spoke as though the fate of the nation hinged on the mayoralty race. When the Republican New York Sun reported happily that a big bookie 'named Frank Erickson had attended a beefsteak dinner given in honor of the mayor and Democratic Senatorial Candidate Herbert Lehman, O'Dwyer had a strange & wonderful answer. "Lehman," he said indignantly, "has been framed...
...long ago Tokyo's Shimbun ran a brief review of The Case of General Yamashita (The University of Chicago Press; $4), by A. Frank Reel, a labor lawyer and former U.S. Army captain, who had helped defend the Japanese commander in America's first major war crimes trial. Next day a SCAP officer phoned Shimbun and other Tokyo papers that it would be "advisable" not to mention Reel's book. The Hosei University Press was likewise cautioned not to publish it. The admonitions have been strictly obeyed...
...Supreme Court minority of two-the late Justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge-dissented in grave words. They were appalled by the "wide departure from any semblance of trial as we know that institution." Warned Murphy: "[Yamashita's trial] is unworthy of the traditions of our people . . . The high feelings of the moment doubtless will be satisfied. But in the sober afterglow will come the realization of the boundless and dangerous implications . . . No one in a position of command in an army, from sergeant to general, can escape those implications...