Word: rascalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip. San Antonio, the old Army town with the highest percentage of retired generals in the U.S., treated him to old memories (he had lived there as a boy, and attended Texas Military Academy). General Jonathan Wainwright was on hand, in bemedaled uniform ("How are you, Skinny, you old rascal?"), so was Lieut. General Walter Krueger, General Courtney Hodges...
...lawyer who was Harry Truman's campaign manager when the President was elected to the Senate in 1934. Dillon once received a $10,000 fee for getting a Capone henchman paroled. Mississippi Congressman John B. Williams, on the floor of the House, angrily referred to Dillon as "a rascal, an underworld character, a fixer, an influence peddler." Another of Hood's Washington "contact men" is Acey Carraway, former financial director of the Democratic National Committee, to whom Hood says he still pays $500 a month for "anything he can do" to help Hood's lumber business...
...President, who has been heard to call Axis Junior Partner Francisco Franco a rascal-among other things-made no attempt to hide his continuing contempt for Spain's dictator. He said his attitude toward Spain hasn't changed one bit. But Harry Truman, like many other people, was beginning to be less & less choosy about allies. Franco, after all, sits in a strategic position in the Mediterranean and in Europe, and he has 22 divisions, though his troops are poorly armed and he himself is of dubious dependability. As his ambassador, the President chose Stanton Griffis, onetime Ambassador...
...born legal scholar, longtime (1919-48) teacher of law at the University of California; in Oakland. An outspoken Brandeisian liberal, good friend of New Deal Legalists Felix Frankfurter and Thurman Arnold, Radin once said: "The law is not a bag of tricks that any fool can learn and any rascal can apply, but an attempt at coordinating the methods by which some social mechanism can enforce right dealing between...
Down with Politicians. But Leopold's life is complicated by the political intrigues that zigzag through the town. When a loudmouthed rascal who has found refuge in the local branch of the Communist Party denounces him as a protector of a fascist, Leopold is thrown into jail. There he suffers agonies because he is deprived of his wine. When he is finally released, he bellows his denunciation of all politicians-Communists, Gaullists, "the whole bloody country"-in the town streets. A war profiteer whom he has mocked gets Leopold arrested again. While resisting, he is shot and killed...