Word: minton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Communist Party of Connecticut, like Ruth McKenney's Cleveland Sunday school, turned her out. With her went her husband, Richard Bransten, her Hollywood collaborator and onetime Washington correspondent, under the name of Bruce Minton, for the New Masses. Printing the eviction notice, the Daily Worker accused the Branstens of "attacking the basic line of the Party . . . slandering its leadership." Their conduct, frowned the Worker, was "characteristic of petty-bourgeois radicalism . . . and ultrarevolutionary phrase-mongering...
...come, Dr. Conant, how come? W. J. Minton...
Washington dopesters promptly began speculating on his successor. Two best bets: Vermont's Warren Robinson Austin or Ohio's Senator Harold Hitz Burton, both able Republicans. Democratic possibilities also mentioned: new Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach or U.S. District Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime Congressman of Indiana...
...preference, was: 1) Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes; 2) Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas; 3) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant. Other candidates: the Senate leader, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded out for the job. Sam Rosenman had joined Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran, the "Big Fix" of 1940, in supporting justice Douglas, a young...
...Walt Minton had no trouble taking the 145 pounders for Kirkland, throwing Freddy Eaton in 1:05 with a bar and chancery. In the same way George Albion, a seasoned grappler, racked up a 12 to 2 decision over Jim Wiley in the 155 pound class...