Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By nightfall, the top candidates were counting the early returns, like sharp-eyed pineapple sorters in a canning factory. Well past midnight, the results began to show. Ahead in the gubernatorial race was a malihini (newcomer)-a handsome, smiling Republican named William Francis Quinn, only a dozen years in the...
On hand for the interservice farewell to Generals Weyland and Partridge at Boiling: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James S. Russell, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman Lemnitzer.
Doubtful about taking on Attorney Anthony's offer in Honolulu, Quinn discussed it with an old St. Louis friend, Bill James. Remarking on the possibilities in growing Hawaii, James said prophetically: "If you go, you'll be Governor in ten years." The Quinns, by then parents of two...
True enough, said Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, leading off for the government, the Devlin commission had found no reliable evidence that a "massacre" was about to take place. But then, said the Attorney General, the Colonial Secretary, in explaining to the House what had gone on in Nyasaland...
Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's brilliant courtroom drama involving murder, rape and outspoken language about both. James Stewart as a deceptively easygoing lawyer and Lee Remick as an accident-prone tart are excellent, but famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch steals the show as the...