Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went back to his native Hungary for illegal work, was captured, twice .sentenced to long jail terms. Tried on 25 charges of murder, another 17 cases of inciting to murder, Rakosi spat at the court: "I do not intend to justify my actions. I honestly pursued my Communist convictions. I have no cause whatever to relent...
...generals and admirals understood perfectly well that it was desperation that brought the Chinese and North Koreans to the conference table. Some on the U.N. side suspected from the first that the enemy did not intend to make peace, but only to win a breathing spell. The U.N. made it plain to the Communists that the fighting would go on until the armistice was signed and sealed. The U.N. morale was high; the prevalent attitude was that the enemy would have to toe the line if he wanted a truce. The State Department thought the truce talks might last...
Harassments. With practiced eye, they measured the new Communist insults and harassments, and decided that the Russians did not intend war. There were incidents aplenty. Nightly there were isolated shootings and Communist kidnapings. An East German policeman slightly wounded an American MP at one border point. Dial telephone service between East and West sectors had been cut off by the Communists. As many as 800 refugees a day fled from East Germany to join West Berlin's 290,000 jobless...
...satisfied that these men did not intend any harm. They are all without criminal records. Many have futures in which criminal records would be harmful. There has, of course, been much expense to the state already. I'm asking the court to forget that, too. I've spoken to the University deans and to Chief Patrick Ready. They have been in co-operation in the past. If this trial were to go on. It might cause a serious break between them...
...lands from federal control back to state control. "That is just what the oil lobby wants," said Truman. "Talk about corruption. Talk about stealing from the people. That would be robbery in broad daylight-and on a colossal scale. It would make Teapot Dome look like small change . . . I intend to stand up and fight to protect the people's interest in this matter." Since a bill to return the Tidelands to the states was already on its way from Congress to the White House for signature, this seemed a clear signal that the President would veto...