Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shocked and dismayed when I read your Letters column and saw Harry Truman suggested for Man of the Half-Century [TIME...
Though they sometimes snorted in the process, almost all these people, and a hundred million more, read the headlines and eyed the newsreels with a sense of gratitude. It was comforting to know that the rest of the news, most of it fairly grim and overpowering, was happening to someone else...
Minnesota's freshman New Dealer Hubert Humphrey read a speech 105 pages long. Senators from the industrial East, Senators from the conservative South, were waiting to be heard. It would be a long hot summer in Washington...
...Assistant Attorney Thomas Murphy now got into the fight. He objected when Stryker, bobbing around the court, kept getting between him and the witness. He bristled when Stryker gave his arm a jovial pat. Once he spoiled Stryker's melodramatic reading of some evidence by pleading in his heavy voice, "Oh, please, Mr. Stryker, read it straight." His thick, brown mustache worked, he sighed with rage when little Judge Kaufman time & again overruled his objections, sustained many of Stryker...
Seven-in-One. Chambers was taken back & forth over the old story of espionage. He confirmed previous testimony as it was read back to him-how in 1939, two days after the Hitler-Stalin pact, he had gone to see Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and as a repentant man had urged that some action be taken to get Communists out of key places in the Government. He had named names then, among them Alger Hiss's. He had said nothing about the stolen documents in his possession. "Nevertheless, I gave him [Berle] to understand that...