Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the Flag. In a belated-and reluctant-opinion which sided with a six-month-old majority decision, Justice Willam 0. Douglas raised a conscience-pricking doubt about the legality of the Allies' punishment of Axis war criminals. When seven of the 25 Japanese warlords convicted in Tokyo appealed to the Supreme Court last year, the court decided it had no power to upset the judgment of the international tribunal which tried them. Now Douglas wanted to know: if the Supreme Court can't scrutinize the tribunals' judgments, who can? "If an American general holds a prisoner...
...Honolulu, the governor's impartial fact-finding board hopefully suggested a cure for the two-month-old waterfront strike which was slowly paralyzing Hawaiian industry (TIME, July 4). The board proposed a 14?-an-hour pay raise for Harry Bridges' striking stevedores. Reluctantly, the islands' seven struck stevedoring companies agreed to pay. In Washington, President Truman said that the striking dockworkers should accept the offer; Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug telephoned Hawaii's Acting Governor Oren Long to say that the Administration was squarely behind the proposal...
Tsumoru Fujii had been at Ulan Ude near Lake Baikal. His story was typical. This P.W. camp was run by a seven-man "antifascist committee" made up of captives who had gone through a two-month political school at Nakhodka, near Vladivostok. Five nights a week, Fujii and his fellow prisoners would trudge off to hear a two-hour lecture. Last November, prisoners were told how Henry Wallace had been defrauded of the U.S. presidency by vote-buying and illegal balloting organized by Democrats and Republicans. Recently they were told that MacArthur was forcibly taking rice from Japanese farmers...
...issue was one of the most peculiar in Australia's turbulent labor history. Miners' demands for shorter hours and a three-month long-service vacation after seven years' employment had been pending before the Coal Tribunal. The tribunal's sole member is Francis Heath Gallagher, a lawyer who now spends much of his time in the coal mines and is sympathetic with the miners' grievances...
...illegitimate son of an English doctor and a French ballet dancer, Meryon joined the French navy in 1841, resigned after seven years "because I did not feel solid enough, either physically or morally, to wield authority over men . . ." As a lonely alternative he took up painting, switched to etching when he found he was color blind. His technical perfectionism was the despair of Meryon himself ("I should have been a tinker"). Combined with his gloomy appreciation of Paris' medieval buildings, it gave his prints the quality of polished mirrors reflecting a magnificently sinister world. "I see an enemy behind...