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...year term the Republicans have again nominated a complete neophyte to politics. Bill Purtell has been a businessman all his life and a good one; he is president of the Holo-Krome Screw Company, which, despite the fact that it is non-unionized, has enjoyed admirable labor relations. Purtell's big drawback in industrial Connecticut is the fact that in the years since 1947 he has been both vice-president and president of the Connecticut Association of Manufacturers, an organization which has consistently opposed welfare measures in the state. Bill Benton's speechwriters are working hard on the record...
...ruling engine" that makes the gratings is simple, in principle. It has a moving carriage that rules each line by means of a sharp diamond chip. After the carriage has made each round trip over the grating, a screw nudges it forward one ninetieth of a hairbreadth. Then it rules another line...
Until late 1942, Pinto was assigned to British Counterintelligence, a body which requires gentlemanly behavior of its agents. British spycatchers are not permitted, as Gestapo agents were, to pull out fingernails and toenails, or to crack open stubborn skulls with screw-hoops of steel. In some cases they are not even permitted to call a suspect a liar; they must say politely: "I suggest that your answer to my last question contained certain inaccuracies." Moreover, since no confession obtained under duress is valid in British law, the catcher must take care not to hector or bully his man beyond...
...more likely than not, passivity. Belief in democracy is strong, yes, but inarticulate. We are being bankrupted by the wild spenders promoting the frills and flub-dubbery of new wrinkles in education. Only we, the people, can stop this. Put the promoting type of educator to the rack and screw...
...United States reversed the California courts and made Antonio Rochin a free man. Wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter for the majority of the court: ". . . The proceedings by which this conviction was obtained do more than offend some fastidious squeamishness ... They are methods too close to the rack and the screw to permit of constitutional differentiation." Frankfurter based his decision on the 14th Amendment, which forbids a state to interfere with a person's life or liberty "without due process...