Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pravda worked out one of its fine diplomatic distinctions. It called Old Soldier Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. ambassador to Moscow, a "professional spy." On the other hand, ECAmbassador W. Averell Harriman, who once had Smith's job, was merely a "spy by avocation...
...bounce which make the old tale believable and now & then lift it right out of its tatted frame. Other notable performances are Margaret O'Brien's delicate, peaked portrayal of ailing Beth, and the supporting work of veterans Mary Astor (Marmee), the late Sir C. Aubrey Smith and Lucille Watson. The whole package is so richly wrapped in romantic period sets and costumes that the final shot is unnecessary: a pastel, picture-postcard rainbow rises out of the subsiding suds and sentiments to arch the happy ending...
...following men contributed to the Winthrop exhibit: H.L.W. Brorby '50, W.Y.M. Chang '50, G. Groff-Smith '50, P. Hillman '48, S.D. Kranz '50, J.G. McNear '50, A. Taub '51, G.H. Whitney, Jr. '50, R.L. Wise '51, J.W. Woodard '48, H. Zubell...
...actually indicted by the district attorney and convicted by the courts for advocating violent overthrow of the government, the institution which employed him would lose its charter. New York State's Lusk Laws, passed in 1921, are the only precedent for this sort of legislation. Characterized by Governor Al Smith as "vicious" and intolerant," they were repealed two years after their passage...
...sedition in the educational institutions of Massachusetts. The Teachers' Oath Law of 1935 requires all teachers in the state to swear that they will uphold the United States Constitution. Is only function has been to "expose" three instructors who refused to sign as a matter of principals. The Smith Act, making it a crime to advocate forcible overthrow of the U.S. government, has not brought a single conviction in this state since its passage by Congress in 1940. Only one man has ever been convicted under the Massachusetts Criminal Anti-Anarchy Act, and that conviction was quashed over 20 years...