Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman Thomas' gavel whacked the table, a four-day parade of witnesses trooped to the stand. These were not publicity-seekers or Citizen Fix-Its; they were definitely recalcitrant. They wrangled angrily with the un-American Activities committeemen and were ordered down again. The witnesses followed a well-organized, prearranged plan...
Only one witness would stand still long enough to be counted. He was quiet-spoken, 45-year-old Emmet Lavery, president of the Screen Writers' Guild and a member of the New York state bar. Like the others, he challenged the committee's constitutional right to ferret out a man's personal politics. "But," he said, "let me break the suspense immediately. I am not a Communist. I never have been, and don't intend to be. I am a Democrat, who in my youth was a Republican. Now if the committee is interested...
...others took the stand; they said much the same thing. There was practical, slight Ernst Brennscheidt, a civilian government employee who might have been working in Berlin today if he had not been sent to Sachsenhausen to test army shoes. His methods were simple. For 14 hours a day, beating them when they dropped, he had marched prison inmates carrying 50-lb. sandbags around & around a half-mile track until the shoes wore out. Then he knew which shoes were faulty...
...Simonsen's up-to-date economics, and even those who understand them do not always like them. But in hundreds of letters and telegrams that, by week's end, had flooded his fifth-floor, book-lined bachelor apartment in downtown Rio, he was applauded for his stand on the Marshall Plan. Some of the applause was for what he said. Much was for Simonsen, the Brazilian...
...author of the Baruch-Hancock reconversion report (TIME, Jan. 17, 1944) and ex-U.S. delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: "Either these charges are based on ignorance of how business is done, or this is another campaign against American business made for purposes that will not stand the light...