Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lying in Company. The court's most astonishing decision of the day was the setting aside of the perjury conviction of deposed Labor Leader Harold R. Christoffel, who ran the costly Allis Chalmers strike in 1941. Christoffel had been given a two-to six-year prison sentence for falsely telling the House Education and Labor Committee that he was not a Communist. The Supreme Court, split 5 to 4, rescued Christoffel with a startling technicality: a quorum of the committee was not on hand when he told his lies; therefore, though he lied under oath, he had not lied...
...Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department, of charges that he had perjured himself when he told a grand jury that he had never given State Department secrets to ex-Communist Courier Chambers, and that he had never seen Chambers after...
...might, the defense was never able to get rid of that typewriter. It had called Mrs. Claudie ("Clytie") Catlett, the Hisses' onetime Negro maid, to testify that the Hisses had given the machine to her sons, had tried to show that the machine was not in the Hiss household when the treasonous act was committed. But neither Clytie Catlett and her sons, uncertain witnesses at best, nor the Hisses were able definitely to remember just when the Catletts got the machine. Pat Catlett remembered that when he got it, he took it forthwith to a typewriter repair shop...
...each of the test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example...
...Long Island's Creedmoor State Hospital, the staff was given cautiously optimistic reports on the use of histamine in treating...