Word: one
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point, at least half of the jurors broke into tears; one fainted dead away in the box and had to be carried...
...Republican as Kansas itself. A national committeeman, he turned down the national chairmanship this year, before it was handed to New Jersey's Guy Gabrielson. Darby wrenched control of Kansas' Republican delegation from Alf Landon last year and led it on to the Dewey bandwagon-and was one of the rare few who warned Deweymen that the Republicans might lose the 1948 election...
Judge Sloane, white-faced, turned on the jury: "Ladies of the jury," he said, "I tremble at what you did. One of the great bulwarks of our country is the jury system. Every little blot on that system -and this verdict is a blot on it-if continued and added to will gather into a great darkness. I dismiss you with a censure of this miscarriage of justice...
...One morning in October 1933, Schomaker, Bridges and a Communist named Bruce B. Jones sat in a restaurant sipping coffee (paid for by Bridges) and talking. "In the course of the conversation," said the witness, "Jones put the $64 question to Bridges. The question was: 'When are you going to join the party, Harry?' Bridges already had the application." Bridges acted "kind of coy" for a few minutes, Schomaker went on, but finally he signed up under the name of Harry Dorgan, using his mother's maiden name...
...possibility that others would join their ranks-were among the reasons why a new meeting of the Cominform was held, "somewhere in Hungary," in the latter part of November. (French diplomatic sources spotted it at the resort of Galyateto, in the Matra mountains.) "Titoism" was spreading. One of the most exciting rumors current in Europe was that there might soon be a major addition to the list of dissidents: Rumania's Amazonian Ana Pauker, announced the Rome radio, was not at the meeting and was reported to be in difficulties with Moscow...