Word: freehandedness
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A few days before the Allied breakout from Normandy in World War II, a Vichy government train was chugging through central France. Its freight: ten billion French francs (then worth $200 million) for the Bank of France in Limoges. At a tank stop the train was boarded by a gang...
"Killing sparrows," Georgia's Senator Walter George called it scornfully. But Illinois' Paul Douglas and Michigan's Homer Ferguson doggedly went on setting their small snares for the bureaucratic idler and the freehanded spender. In the Senate last week, first one and then the other bobbed up...
Died. Clifton Alexander Woodrum, 63, longtime (1923-45) U.S. Representative from Virginia; of a heart ailment; in Washington. Though he went along with most of the New Deal, Woodrum was a leader of the Democratic Party's conservative wing, spoke up sternly now & then against freehanded Administration spending. In...
"The right to search an arrested person and to take the stuff on top of the desk at which he sits has a justification of necessity which does not eat away the great principle of the Fourth Amendment. But to assume that this exception of a search incidental to arrest...
Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in...