Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since May 1957, the bill to grant statehood to Alaska has been gathering dust in a House Rules Committee pigeonhole personally guarded by Rules Chairman Howard Smith. Virginia Democrat Smith opposes the bill, at least partly because Alaska would probably send a pro-civil-rights delegation to Congress. Only last week did Smith hold his first hearings on the bill, and monopolized the time by questioning New York's Democratic Representative Leo O'Brien, a backer of Alaskan statehood, until the meeting was broken up by a House quorum call. Cunning old Chairman Smith benignly called another...
...pigeonholing the statehood bill, Howard Smith is clearly bucking a House majority, including Speaker Sam Rayburn. "The Speaker asked me to get it out of the Rules Committee," says Virginian Smith. "I told him I wouldn't if I could help it. I'm against it." By his tactics last week, Smith made sure that nothing would happen until at least mid-April. If he can stall for another month after that, nearly everyone agrees that the bill will be lost in the rush of House business-and Alaska will have to wait months or years longer...
...Anomaly in the Law." The case considered by the Supreme Court last week was that of top U.S. Communists Gilbert Green and Henry Winston, convicted under the Smith Act in 1949, each fined $10,-ooo and sentenced to five years in prison. After sentencing, both jumped bail and hid out for nearly five years. When they gave themselves up in 1956, they were sentenced to three more years apiece for their contempt of court in jumping bond. The criminal-contempt convictions were upheld last week by the Supreme Court-but only by a 5-to-4 vote...
...foundation wall of multicolored manila folders for every chapter and subsection. Into the room-long row of folders he piled notes, clippings, dozens of scrawled, yellow-paper memos-"Why so much education?", "All small talk in modern Russian novels is about nuts and bolts." Settling down at his battered Smith-Corona typewriter, across from a child's map of the world, Gunther started out with the inside chapters on the Kremlin hierarchy, plowed through what he calls "the picture stuff," i.e., travelogue chapters, tackled science and education, wound up writing the topical opening and concluding chapters...
Later that afternoon, they showed up at the Open Air Market. Clerk Adrian Wilson stood behind a counter. Customer Ed Kenney was there. So was Owner Floyd Blair, who was repairing a friend's pistol. Asked Robert Smith: "Is that a real gun?" Replied Blair...