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...political attitudes ... [but] the thrust of government in Washington is continuously to the left ..." Now I knew that the statement was ridiculous: everyone knows that the federal government is impotent. So I was going to throw the letter away and just start studying. But I was hooked. This M. Stanton Evans who had somehow gotten my name on his mailing list had more to tell me. Putting my readings aside, I continued: "While taxpaying conservatives are hard at work earning a living, an army of left-wing agitators, radical legal services lawyers, AFL-CIO lobbyists, Common Cause publicists, tax-exempt...
Contrary to the temper of the times, wrote Federal Judge Leon Yankwich in a 1938 law-review article, Johnson refused to "sanction extreme measures against the defeated South." A flood of congressional resentment finally broke over him in 1868 after he tried to fire Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War and hard-line Reconstructionist, who had become an angry Johnson...
Compounding the President's troubles, Congress had passed a law forbidding such a removal without the consent of the Senate. Because the Senate had not consented, Stanton refused to give up his office. But the President would not back off, confident that the Supreme Court would find Congress' firing restriction unconstitutional. Before any high-court determination, however, the House voted eleven articles of impeachment. With the Senate sitting as a trial court and presided over by the Chief Justice, the charges were prosecuted by the "managers" from the House, one of whom elegantly defined an impeachable...
...Died. Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 83, an American pioneer in nonobjective art and co-founder (with Morgan Russell) in 1913 of the "synchromistic" school of painting; of a heart attack; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. While studying art in Paris, Wright read about 19th century discoveries in optics and color and decided to eliminate from his paintings everything but chromatic rhythm and form. Comparing color to sound, Wright often selected visual harmonies by striking chords and intervals on a piano. His work influenced such American artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Arthur B. Davies and Joseph Stella...
Bolin took over for Boston starter John Curtis after Vada Pinson and Lee Stanton singled with one out in the seventh. Frank Robinson greeted Bolin with a run-scoring single and Oliver followed with his decisive blast, enabling the Angels to salvage the finale of a three-game series...