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...Wagons Full of Cotton reveals that for Tennessee Williams, life had dirty fingernails from the outset. Williams tells of a mussy, lolling, almost half-witted young girl married to a much older, hard-up cotton man who has set fire to a rival cotton gin. As he hoped, he gets the order to process his rival's cotton, but the rival supervisor, as hush money, beds the wife. The plot is rowdy Erskine Caldwell with a crueler edge: already, eleven years ago, Williams could make a smoking-car story constitute a criticism of life. Tremendously helpful to 27 Wagons...
...three preconditions to a top-level conference: 1) it must follow ratification of the Paris pacts, 2) it must be clear at the outset that the conference would not become a niggling debating session or a propaganda springboard, and 3) the conferences should not include Western Germany or Communist China...
...imposing (6 ft. 3½ in.) frame still erect at 84, Speculator Baruch sat down to testify as the last committee witness. It was plain, as he delivered a clear and witty explanation of how the market functions, that he should have been the first witness. "At the outset." said he, "let me emphasize that no one knows whether stocks are too high today." because the market's rise or fall depends on such unpredictables as economic conditions, politics, international affairs, emotions-even the weather. "Largely because of the crash of 1929, the impression has built up that...
...trial judge have to fumble through the pleadings at the trial to find out what the case is all about ... He has before him in a pretrial-conference order a complete outline of the course that the trial will take; he is master of the situation from the outset to the conclusion of the trial...
...them in a mood to stir up trouble, met with New York's Herbert Lehman. Agenda: discussion of an anti-filibuster change in the Senate rules. A fight on this point would have set Northern and Southern Democrats at each other's throats at the very outset of the 1955 session. The man who killed the plan was Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, once the noisiest and most reckless of the South-baiters. Humphrey urged his friends to "abandon the devil theory of politics," i.e., to recognize their Southern colleagues as reasonable, constructive men rather than...