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≫ Though he was a good friend of Senator McCarthy, Williams acknowledges that the grand inquisitor from Wisconsin "transgressed the rights of some witnesses." Williams defended his friend before the Senate committee that in 1954 cited McCarthy for contempt, and in making much of the assertion that McCarthy's...
Confusa: It's ironical that price-support programs set up to deal with surpluses should create bigger surpluses.
Sam's Lawyer. It is almost ironical that Ervin's reputation as a humorist has obscured his standing as one of Capitol Hill's most learned students of the U.S.
Moral. The case involved several ironies. Among the customers allegedly injured were General Electric, Westinghouse and Allis-Chalmers, all of which were fined in 1961 for similar antitrust violations in rigging prices of electrical equipment. For the forging makers, the crimes (if crimes were committed) did not pay: Erie Forge...
Seventy families agreed to the move, but 140 other families had to be convinced at gunpoint. Leading their cows and water buffaloes, with their belongings piled on ox carts, the 1,200 displaced peasants filed into the jungle clearing of Ben Tuong to be greeted by a banner bearing the...