Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went as the lawyers, collecting $2,275 a week from the C.P. in fees, worked to goad the judge into making a prejudicial error; it would be handy on appeal. Medina occasionally reddened with wrath as they darted in at him: Isserman with his soft bay; Gladstein with his air of righteous plausibility turning to outraged innocence when the judge caught him laying a legal trap; Harry Sacher, the little man with the bull voice, chivying the Court, then smiling impishly, eyes cast down, while the judge mildly upbraided him; Dennis rushing in occasionally to make a choked, impassioned speech...
...fellow convict during a seven-year stretch in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. Parry had stolen around $250,000 in his career, he bragged, and he had pulled 250 jobs. He didn't feel he had been greedy. Said he: "You've got to make a lot to get along. There are a lot of expenses." A man needed partners or a fingerman, and "good conservative clothes to be inconspicuous and live in good hotels so you won't be noticed, coming and going. Even on $1,000 a month...
...United Nations organization . . . has so far been rent and distracted by the antagonism of Soviet Russia and by the fundamental schism which has opened between communism and the rest of mankind. But we must not despair. We must persevere, and if the gulf continues to widen, we must make sure that the cause of freedom is defended by all the resources of combined forethought and superior science. Here lies the best hope of averting a third world struggle...
...seek nothing from Russia but good will and fair play. If, however, there is to be a war of nerves, let us make sure that our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts . . . Let us then move forward together in discharge of our mission and our duty, fearing God-and nothing else...
This, at least in the minds of many men, tends to make useless the political freedom enjoyed by citizens of a democracy. That kind of sentiment has been an important recruiting agent for communism...