Word: hammering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Hungarian Communists continued what they called their "educational enlightenment" of the public, which tried to hammer home the point that Mindszenty was not only a traitor but a coward. There were some Hungarians who fell for the line. Others, who even refused to listen to the radio broadcasts of the trial, believed in Mindszenty more strongly than ever. Said a Catholic worker: "He is my priest. The government could not have strong enough reason to bring him into court." Said a middle-aged woman: "The Primate's greatest mistake was his wrong timing in speculating...
...Cleveland courtroom last week, Cleveland Press Reporter Leonard Hammer meekly answered a charge of contempt of court. Beside him stood Press Editor Louis Seltzer and two other staffers. They had faked a divorce (TIME, Feb. 14) to dramatize the slipshod handling of such cases in Cuyahoga County. Though Editor Seltzer argued that "What we did with good intent . . . could be done by others with bad intent," the four Pressmen were found guilty, fined a total of $1,000. Sympathetic readers offered Editor Seltzer more than $1,400, and sent him six bouquets; he kept the flowers but declined the money...
Judge Silbert found out what he had done last week in the Press story under an eight-column, Page One banner: FAKE CASE PROVES DIVORCE EASY. Wrote Reporter Hammer: "I believe [Judge Silbert] would have signed the paper if it appointed me President Truman's guardian." The Press followed up his story with a front-page editorial condemning "assembly line" justice...
...trick! .. . I can't read 200 [divorce decrees] a week. I sign whatever is placed before me ... I've got to trust the attaches of this court. . ." The judge soon cooled off and wanted to forget the whole thing. But the local bar associations demanded that Reporter Hammer be punished...
...week's end, supercharged little Press Editor Louis Seltzer (TIME, Aug. 9) was cited for contempt, and ordered to appear in court this week before his old friend Judge Silbert. So were City Editor Louis Clifford, Reporter Hammer, and the Campbells. For a time it had looked as if the Campbells would have other troubles. Fake or not, Hammer's petition had legally divorced them and efforts to get another marriage license were thwarted by an angry Cleveland judge. Editor Seltzer solved that. He sent them to Angola, Indiana, for a remarriage and second honeymoon-at Press expense...