Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalking out of a meeting of the Republican National Committee last January, one disgruntled committeeman grated: "I'll give that guy just six months more." Last week, almost six months to the day, the committeeman saw his prophecy come true. In the interest of "harmony in our ranks," National...
But the firing continued. Scott won his first skirmish with Republican rebels at the Omaha harmony and hair-pulling meeting last winter, when he got a 54 to 50 "vote of confidence" (TIME, Feb. 7). Since then he had been trying to find a platform that everybody could stand on...
Rebel Baldwin gathered his supporters downstairs on the porch, getting minute-by-minute reports from the packed meeting room. Just before Irving rose to read his financial report (it would have shown, Irving explained later, that the local's net worth was a handsome $204,000), Baldwin's...
In Los Angeles' Queen of Angels Hospital, Mickey was bitter: "Them guys was just mad-dog punks," he declared. "How any human bein' can fire bullets into a crowd of people beats me. They're animals. They ain't human."
One day last week, Mickey visited his haberdashery on Sunset Strip, handled a piddling $7,500 in bets, and wound up at Sherry's, a nearby gin mill patronized by racketeers, movie stars, detectives and high-priced prostitutes. Mickey settled as always in Booth 12, which commands a view...