Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friendship's Sake? His death raised a delicate problem for President Truman, faced with the necessity of appointing a second new justice within two months. Under ordinary circumstances the appointment almost certainly would go to Rhode Island's J. Howard McGrath, a Roman Catholic, who had hoped to get Catholic Frank Murphy's seat but dutifully took the U.S. attorney generalship when Harry Truman chose Tom C. Clark...
...Howard B. Unruh saw a good bit of combat as a tank gunner in Italy and France. But unlike most front-line soldiers he never smoked, swore or chased girls. He drank a little kümmel, but only as an experiment. He was a slender, shy, high-domed youth with dark hair, pallid skin, thick lips and sunken cheeks...
Nobody paid any attention as he sauntered, pistol in hand, into Clark Hoover's barbershop. Inside, a six-year-old boy with a white apron around his neck was sitting astride a raised hobbyhorse. The barber stood beside him clipping busily. Wordlessly, Howard Unruh aimed his pistol. He shot the boy on the hobbyhorse through the chest and head, then fired again and killed the barber...
Know Thyself. In San Francisco, Parolee Malcolm D. Howard, hauled off to jail after his sixth burglary, muttered to police: "I don't know why I do these things...
Another remedy might be reciprocity with the U.S., and, if the U.S. is willing, free trade across the border. Canadians rejected wide reciprocity when U.S. President William Howard Taft proposed it in 1911. They feared it would lead to a customs union, the destruction of Canadian industries and the ultimate loss of Canadian independence. They would be wary of it today for the same reasons...