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...unconstitutional, it wouldn't work, and it would refute the ideals which we claim to stand for," they said. "Our courts have a policy that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Why should we mock this policy by condemning a party because of its ideals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orators Win One; Lose One in Ivy League Debates | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...lucky for Pratt that ROTC students aren't subject to military law, because the 16 members of his unit are set to make the mock trial grimly realistic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROTC Mock Courtmartial Tries Trainee for Thievery | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

...outraged that U.S. dollars should go to socialist Britain. "In England," he declared, "if individuals are unfortunate enough to have lost all their hair . . . they obtain free toupees." The Republicans' ponderous Gene Millikin, whose bald dome glistens like a submerged boulder in a Colorado stream, rose in mock dismay: "What would make a man so depraved that he would want to cover an honest bald head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Chipping & Chiseling | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...everything you can to avoid the amusements and noise and the business of men. Keep as far away as you can from the places where they gather to cheat and insult one another, to exploit one another, or to mock one another with their false gestures of friendship. Do not read their newspapers if you can help it. Be glad if you can keep beyond reach of their radios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Mountain | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Glittering Smile. Said one American, contemplating these subterranean revels: "You might almost think the Germans are going underground again, leaving the ruins above ground to mock their conquerors." But there are other types of underground Germans-the thousands of homeless in Düsseldorf and every Ruhr city, who live in herds in stifling air-raid bunkers. The fits to which these cave dwellers are frequently subject have been nicknamed Bunkerkholler (bunker frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Faceless Crisis | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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