Word: manion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime of the book takes place in the glacier-gouged peninsula, at a tiny resort village called Thunder Bay. One midnight beautiful Laura Manion-who is described as vaguely resembling Marilyn Monroe-comes staggering up to the trailer she shares with her Army husband and mumbles through bruised lips that she has been raped and beaten by Saloon Keeper Barney Quill. Her husband, Lieut. Frederic Manion, stuffs a Luger in his pocket, marches into the saloon and coolly shoots Quill dead...
...characters come most alive in the courtroom, in the thrust and parry of cross-examination and in the springing of tactical ambushes and legal traps by opposing counsel. It is quite ordinary writing but good entertainment, and few readers will turn aside until the fate of Lieut. Frederic Manion is finally decided...
...Manion, Chairman of "For America," preceded socialist Norman Thomas, six time presidential candidate, on the program. He postulated that the only excuse for the U.N. was as a "transmission belt to World Government," but that this real issue of the desirability of world government should be approached with "forthright admission and free discussion...
...Manion, who claimed he has held the same views since 1933, then said that international government would be a "menace to the sovereignty and constitutional integrity of this country...
Attacking Manion's conception of a future world government, Thomas said, regarding the possible subjugation of the richer America to the demands of the poorer peripheral countries, that in the U.S. "the poor have robbed the rich very unsuccessfully." Thomas said that new issues and problems have come up since 1933, which required a more liberal interpretation of the constitution...