Word: gideons
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...Johnson was no Confederate; he was the only Southern Congressman not to secede when his state did. But he vetoed bills that he viewed as too punitive against former slave owners, and he resisted military rule over the Southern states. Republicans were so irate, said Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, that they would have impeached Johnson "had he been accused of stepping on a dog's tail...
ZIPPER Invented in 1913 by Swedish immigrant Gideon Sundback at Universal Fastener Co. in Pennsylvania. B.F. Goodrich first used the word to refer to a fastener on a pair of its galoshes; it was not used in clothes until the 1930s. By 1941 zippers beat the pants off buttons in the Battle...
Michael Levine, Heston's publicist, believes the actor's outspokenness has damaged his career. "There's a reverse blacklist," he says. "It is far better in Hollywood to admit you're a drug addict than a conservative." But Heston, having just wrapped his 75th film, Gideon's Webb, shrugs off the concern. "People in the film community think being politically active means getting on Air Force One and going to dinner at the White House," he says. "I've scorned a few liberals in this town, and I get a kick out of that." Only six weeks ago, he called...
Lewis' experience proved invaluable in writing his classic book Gideon's Trumpet, a 1964 bestseller about the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision that established a constitutional right to legal counsel in criminal cases...
Lewis has worked for various newspapers besides the Times and written three books on law and society: Gideon's Trumpet, about the landmark Supreme Court case; Portrait of a Decade, about changes in American race relations; and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment...