Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ghostwriting has debased the intellectual currency in circulation," snapped Justice Robert Jackson, "and is a type of counterfeiting which invites no defense. But has any man before ever been disciplined or even reprimanded for it? And will any be hereafter...
...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...
...public interest would be better served ... by the granting of probation to an old and broken man," said the appeal. The court gave the government a week to reply, and Andy May and the Garsson brothers had won at least one more postponement of their date with the warden...
...well of a federal courtroom in Manhattan sat the tall man in the neat suit, motionless but intent. Beside him sat his wife. For the better part of three days last week the eyes of the pair-Alger and Pris cilia Hiss-were fixed on the man in the witness chair...
...Niebuhr, professor of Christian Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion at Union Theological Seminary, has published books urging changes in Christian ethics. Two of his works are "Moral Man and Immoral Society" and "Nature and Destiny of Man...