Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minute Man. One night last week, Harry Truman got into his limousine and rode over to the Army & Navy Country Club in Arlington, Va. There some 200 members of the Reserve Officers Association and their wives, gathered for dinner, had reached dessert. Mr. Truman sat down at the head table...
...long as it could, the Administration had avoided going to war with its own Southerners over civil rights. It had wanted to get the rest of the Fair Deal in the works first. But this week President Harry Truman issued his ultimatum: meet the Southerners head...
...trial in Moscow in 1938 Genrikh Yagoda, hard-boiled head of the OGPU, said: "Citizen judges, I want to tell [you] how a man who spent thirty years in the party and worked a great deal, stumbled [and] fell ... I have committed heinous crimes. I realize this. It is hard to live after such crimes . . . But it is terrible to die with such a stigma. Even from behind bars I would like to see the further flour-ishings of the country I betrayed...
Brilliant Nikolai Bukharin, former head of the Third International, said: "When you ask yourself, 'If you must die, what are you dying for?' an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness. There was nothing to die for if one wanted to die unrepented. And . . . everything positive that glistens in the Soviet Union acquires new dimensions in a man's mind...
...next Law School Forum, on March 18, will present Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), Norman Thomas, head of the Socialist Party, and Senator Owen Brewster (R-Me.), discussing government regulation of the economy...