Word: governmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus emboldened, the council three weeks ago passed its first "ordinance," setting up the office of dogcatcher, requiring licenses for Richland dogs and specifying eight-foot leashes in public places. Nothing happened; the council was told that AEC lawyers would have to think it over. Last week, the Richland city...
The Government proposed to prove that Bridges perjured himself at his naturalization proceedings in 1945 when he swore that he had never been a Communist. Schomaker had served as business agent of Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, but lost the job in a union...
"That is very possible," said the flustered witness, "but I don't recall it." During the luncheon recess. Government lawyers looked up the 1939 transcript, found no such testimony. Confronted with the evidence, and lectured by the judge for his conduct. Hallinan insisted, "Anything I can do to show...
By week's end, Schomaker's devastating testimony was unshaken and the Government had produced another ex-Communist to substantiate it. For the first time in its ten-year effort to deport Harry Bridges to his native Australia, the U.S. seemed to be getting somewhere.
"I like a country where it's nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone...