Word: old
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every cent into the campaign. The primaries weren't due until next August, but Sims had no machine and knew he made a barn-sized target as the state's only avowed liberal in Congress. A good many wise birds in South Carolina politics, who quote the old maxim "It's not how you stand, but how you run," were ready to wager that the voters would easily remember Hugo Sims and his blue trailer...
...deliberately advised his stepson to refuse to register, he said, and had offered him money to skip to Canada or Mexico. The stepson disregarded the advice and on his 18th birthday registered. But 40-year-old Wirt Warren, a Unitarian and a Socialist who had been drafted as a conscientious objector in World War II, was plainly inviting the U.S. to make something of it anyway...
...moment Henry Blackmer had put off for 25 years. His fists clenched, the half-blind, old oil millionaire last week stood up for sentencing in a Denver courtroom. The man who fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Teapot Dome oil scandal had voluntarily flown home seven weeks before to face perjury charges on his income tax (TIME, Oct. 3). The court agreed with the U.S. attorney that the evidence was perhaps too weak to support the charges, agreed too with a doctor's report that "any substantial period of confinement" would cause Henry Blackmer...
...believe the ends of justice would be served by sentencing the defendant to jail," said the judge. Instead he fined Blackmer $20,000. Blackmer's attorney whipped out two $10,000 cashier's checks, drawn on a New York bank, and paid the fine. Old Henry Blackmer walked out of the courtroom, a free man-not exactly vindicated, but at least paid...
...much the same old celebration of the Russian Revolution's anniversary (the 32nd this year). Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, the boss's son, led an aerial parade of four-engine bombers and jet fighters over the reviewing stand in Red Square. The main address was delivered by rising Red star Georgy M. Malenkov. Said Politburocrat Malenkov: the U.S. is trying to enslave the whole world, outdoing the Nazis and the Japanese imperialists; at the same time, the capitalist system is approaching another disastrous depression (by lumping in "those not working a full week," Malenkov arrived...