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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time Lucas had made his mark in Washington as a friend of the farmer and a down-the-line New Dealer. One of the few measures on which he broke with Franklin Roosevelt was the court-packing bill. Since then he has jumped the fence only to nibble at such lush political grass as last year's Republican tax cut. He voted for the Taft-Hartley bill, then changed front, voted to uphold Harry Truman's veto...
Polk could give no reason for the last-minute postponement of the trial, but said that the delay might give the newsmen a chance to raise enough additional money to send John Donovan of the National Broadcasting Company, who was a close friend of George Polk, as a third member of the expedition...
...March is a pitiless interpreter of the letter of the law. All of a sudden the judge gets more of his own kind of medicine than he can swallow. His wife (Florence Eldridge), he learns, has an obscure, incurable and agonizing disease. Of course neither he nor his old friend the doctor dreams of telling the poor woman what she's in for, but ultimately, in pity and anguish, the judge determines to kill...
...after his age"), Lawrence got down to business. "There must be a revolution . . . nationalizing of all industries . . . communications . . . land-in one fell blow." After that, man could really start "the adventure into the unexplored, the woman," and "fight clear to his own basic, primal being." Lawrence begged his new friend Russell to be a kind and tolerant listener...
...clapped into jail for his pacifist views, spent his 6 months' sentence writing his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. Lawrence got out of England in 1919, but he never really forgave Bertie. "Have you ever seen him in a bathing dress?" he sneeringly asked a friend...