Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter went to Wisconsin's Congressman Lawrence Smith. Still no luck-Mickey had served so well at training centers that the War Department considered him "essential" to the 49th Infantry Scout Dog Platoon at Camp Butner...
Then, after 55 days of hearings, often disorderly, in which 2,500,000 words of conflicting testimony had been heard, the case of Sergeant Judson H. Smith came to an end. Firelight from an open grate flickered on Smith's grey, lined face as the court president, Colonel Louis P. Leone, announced the verdict: guilty of making prisoners eat excessive amounts of food, of administering castor oil, of two charges of felonious assault and four charges of simple assault (i.e., beatings). The sentence: dishonorable discharge and three years at hard labor...
...Smith was only a symbol: the prosecution was after the system and the man it held responsible for the system-Kilian. A contempt of court charge against Kilian (TIME, Feb. 18) was already prepared. Others were reported to be in the making, one involving conspiracy. The imperious colonel had the hot potato, and had need of a miracle...
Catholic Layman Alfred E. Smith could flatly endorse "equality of all Churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of Church and State." Even those who safeguard their orthodoxy most carefully need not believe that Church and State, though their union be a Christian ideal sub specie aeternitatis, can be prudently wed until the final earthly triumph of the City of God-which may perhaps arrive just before Judgment...
Died. Dr. William Allan Neilson, 76, libertarian, lovable, longtime (1917-39) president of Smith College (world's largest for women); of coronary thrombosis, in Northampton, Mass...