Word: noonan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Gross, a convicted labor
extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo
Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945,
after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a
Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross
engineer the shakedown.
Called to the witness table, Hauling Hoods Gross, Noonan, Bitz and 28 other witnesses pleaded the Fifth Amendment. But the record was already clear-and so was the lesson. Said Senator McClellan to the Times's Business Manager Amory Bradford: "It's a very sad commentary [when] one of the greatest publications in the country ... is subjected to a situation where the publication can absolutely be closed down unless they pay tribute." Moreover, the publishers did not succeed in purchasing peace: just last December, the Deliverers' union went on strike, kept New York's nine major...
Favoring "private initiative, direction and control," John T. Noonan, Jr. '47 (pictured above) said the government should step in "only where responsible and efficient private enterprise cannot do the job," and that "fear of the state is the beginning of wisdom...
Judge Kingsley A. Taft of the Ohio Supreme Court, presided at the trial, assisted by Judges Jose deVaron '38 and John T. Noonan '19. The teams are judged on debating ability and not on the legal merits of the case...
...keep the argument going, Krasna brings onscreen those familiar enlisted men: the serious-minded, college-bred sergeant (John Forsythe) and his comical, nearly illiterate sidekick (Tommy Noonan), a pair whose tastes are so completely at variance that only Hollywood would think of them as buddies. Forsythe and Olivia romp through a standard Parisian romance-up the Eiffel Tower and down to the caves; along the Seine for lovemaking; to Notre Dame and the fashion shows. Along the way are substandard complications: Forsythe thinks Olivia has stolen his wallet; Olivia thinks Forsythe is trying to seduce her; Forsythe, eavesdropping on Olivia...