Word: shibley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shibley Jean Talamas, 29, who was born in Haiti to wealthy, Syrian-descended parents with U.S. citizenship, was a bear-size (6 ft. 6 in., more than 300 Ibs.) playboy who enacted a majestic Bacchus at carnival time, managed a leading soccer team and manufactured textiles. He had been educated at Virginia's Hargrave Military Academy and the University of Texas, and was married to an Ashtabula, Ohio girl. In 24 hours last week, U.S. Citizen Talamas ran into a terrible coincidence that cost him his life and Haiti much U.S. good will...
Washington sent Haiti a note charging "murder by beating . . . particularly repugnant because repeated assurances were given that Talamas would not be mistreated." Haiti's only reaction was to repeat the "heart attack" story. In the hospital, where she gave birth to a daughter as her husband was dying, Shibley Talamas' wife was at first told only that her husband was under arrest. Said she: 'That's all right, just as long as Shibley and I can be happy together...
Because the Court had vetoed the Oklahome and upheld the New York Fineberg law, Oklahoma representative Bill Shibley, author of the first law, changed his to fit the Fineberg pattern. The Fineberg law applies only to people who know the groups they are in are subversive. The new Oklahoma law provides for the Constitutional privileges of pacifists by inserting the clause "or render non-combat service" in the pledge to "take up arms in the defense of the U.S. in times of war or national emergency...