Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andy May's lawyers pictured him as a sad and spavined man, plagued with a bad heart, failing eyesight and hearing, and the pangs of near-poverty. Andy's lawyer pleaded that a prison term would bar him from ever holding public office or practicing law again in his native state. (His lawyers did not mention that May, despite his conviction, gets a lifetime federal pension of about $3,400 a year for his 16 years in Congress.) His doctor was even more persuasive. He told the court that a prison term might actually kill old Andy...
That was only the beginning of it. Under an old and odd Connecticut law, all the liquid and real assets jointly owned by Mrs. McCullough and her husband, a picture editor of TIME, were forthwith frozen: a $2,000 bank account, a piece of property worth about $7,500, their $65,000 house (mortgaged...
Overwhelmed by these workings of the law, unable to touch her capital, Mrs. McCullough wondered how she was going to defend herself. Columnist Igor Cassini rallied to her aid. He appealed to his readers for contributions to the Mrs. John T. McCullough Defense Fund. Westbrook Pegler took up the crusade. So did George Sokolsky, columnist in the New York Sun, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald, and Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. Money came in, mostly in small denominations, from militant sympathizers; $18,000 was collected to help Mrs. McCullough fight her libel case through the federal courts...
...most tragic occurrence of the campaign windup involved the Liberal Party's ex-candidate himself. Echandia had been making a point of strolling about downtown Bogota unguarded, in silent contrast to Laureano Gómez' self-imposed seclusion in his son-in-law's tightly barred home. On the first day of the general strike he set out accompanied by his brothers, Vicente and Domingo, and 19 Liberal politicians...
...immunity at a time when all the countries of the Communist empire treat British and U.S. representatives "like stink." Answering Vansittart for the government, Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor, brought cheers when he announced that the government was setting up a committee to consider changes in the law which made Tass libel-proof. To illustrate Tass's mendacity, Viscount Jowitt read a Tass report in Moscow's Literary Gazette of how Londoners "supplement their starvation rations ... On Sundays, armed with guns and traps, [they] set out for the suburbs to hunt wild rabbits, starlings, squirrels, hedgehogs...