Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tears for Injun Joe...
Your story on Caryl Chessman [Feb. 29] brought to mind Mark Twain's comments in Tom Sawyer: "The petition [for Injun Joe's pardon] had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a committee of sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the Governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot. Injun Joe was believed to have killed five citizens of the village, but what of that? If he had been Satan himself, there would have been plenty of weaklings ready...
...state that was long a fortress of rock-ribbed conservatism, both have earned reputations as "liberals," have won broad labor support. Both prefer to ring bells and shake hands on street corners than to get up on the stump. Both are fiercely independent; e.g., Senator Smith denounced Joe McCarthy in his heyday, later bucked the Administration by voting against the confirmation of Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, last time ran with little support from Maine's Republican organization...
Sock the Rich. In Albuquerque, District Director Ernest W. Bacon of the Internal Revenue Service received 12? from a nine-year-old boy with a note attached: "Allowance, 50? per week, 50 times 26 [sic] equals $26; pulling nails, 25?; letting Joe hit me, 5?; not hitting him back, 3? ; cleaning up after dog, 25? ; painting doors, 50?; total $27.08. Spent all but 12?, am sending you and this makes me even...
...aging shepherd of the far-right flank, David Lawrence, commands 282 papers but speaks in such stodgy tones as to be inaudible to readers beguiled by ballistic missiles and revolutionary change. There is Joe Alsop, one of the best descriptive reporters in the business, who attacks any Administration's defense policy with shrill alarums and tends to confuse himself with the prophet Jeremiah; Roscoe Drummond, whose liberal Republican tones are so muted as to be ineffective; and the Times's own fusty senior statesman, Arthur Krock, 73, who in his cumbersome way can still analyze a complicated point...