Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week later, when I was about ready to sail home, I picked up my Aug. 8 copy of TIME. (I always turn to Music first, then Art, People third, and then to the front inside cover and read straight through to the ad on the back.) I never did get beyond Art of that issue, however, because there was a self-portrait and the pathetic story of Sekoto! "I dashed back to the gallery waving my copy of TIME, and showed it to De Cardonne, saying, 'Let's get this to Sekoto right away!' Imagine my astonishment...
...eleven Communists had been indicted and found guilty under the Smith Act. The law, passed by Congress in 1940, and never finally tested by the U.S. Supreme Court, made it a crime to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, or to conspire to commit such acts. There was no question of an overt act of violence; no revolution had actually been attempted. Had the activities of the eleven then constituted for the U.S. what Justice Holmes once characterized as "clear and present danger"? The defendants had merely plotted and planned, taught and preached. No matter...
...Latin, which is one of his hobbies. Only once did he come near to breaking during the trial-during the heat of late July. Then he left the court one day and lay down in an anteroom, a suddenly old and exhausted man who was almost convinced he would never be able to return to the grueling legal marathon into which he had been thrown...
...himself "the life of a vegetable": up at 6, breakfast, drive to the courthouse with one of his bodyguards (he was closely guarded throughout the trial), work over law books until time for court, lunch in his chambers on spinach and one lamb chop (never any variation), nap for half an hour, back to court, back to his chambers for an hour's more work, thence to the Crystal Health Club for a workout, shower and massage, home at 7:15 for two Martinis apiece for wife Ethel and himself, dinner...
...years passed, and the A.F.L.'s Green, the C.I.O.'s Murray and the miners' Lewis became the Big Three of U.S. labor, John L. Lewis never hesitated a second when he had a chance to chuck a cast-iron insult at his former brothers-in-labor. Samples: "I have explored the head of William Green and, believe me, there is nothing there"; "a pusillanimous little man who sees ghosts at night"; "the A.F.L. has no head-its neck just grew up and haired over." Furthermore, rumbled old John L., Philip Murray was "innocuous, feeble and namby-pamby...