Word: millarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time, the criminal career of Millard F. Wright puzzled the police. Because he seemed to have an uncontrollable urge to steal things, Wright has spent 15 of his 38 years in jail. Often he has stolen things he could neither use nor sell. The last time the cops caught him, after a series of Pittsburgh burglaries, they found his apartment full of hoarded, unused loot, including 40 suits, assorted jewelry, several alarm clocks and radios...
Last week Millard Wright's brain operation presented the court with a difficult legal question: Is a criminal tendency a disease that surgery can cure? Brought to trial for his burglaries before Judge G. Malcolm McDonald, Wright looked like a new man. He was cheerful, sociable and relaxed. Dr. Koskoff thought there was a good chance that he had been cured of the urge to steal. But to complete the cure, the prisoner would have to be set free and given a chance to live in a "normal" environment...
Pennsylvania's Senator Francis Myers had won a surprise victory in 1944, but he was too predictably dull; Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings stood too far to the political right; New York's ex-Senator Jim Mead had been beaten to a frazzle by Tom Dewey last November; and New York's ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was just a little too unpredictable. New York's present Mayor Bill O'Dwyer fitted a lot of the requirements, but he is constitutionally ineligible, since he was born in Eire...
...seemed to enjoy himself most was Maryland's caustic Millard Tydings, who maneuvered the Republicans into a crossfire over the question of continuing the special War Investigating Committee...
Thomas Alan Goldsborough, 69-year-old U.S. district judge appointed to the bench in 1939 in return (according to Maryland Democrats) for backing Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful 1938 "purge" of Maryland Senator Millard Tydings. Judge Goldsborough is tall, kindly, vigorous, the father of four. As a politician, he is a New Deal follower who represented Maryland's Eastern Shore in Congress for 18 years (1921-39), specializing in fiscal problems. As a jurist, Judge Goldsborough is impatient of red tape and somewhat hasty. Once he called a defendant a son-of-a-bitch in court-an outburst that...