Word: stevension
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Carpender ("Crazy Willie") Stevens, 70, codefendant with Brother Henry, Sister Frances, in the famed Hall-Mills murder trial of 1926; eleven days after Sister Frances' death; in New Brunswick, N.J. The three defendants were acquitted of the Lovers' Lane murder of the sister's husband...
Johnson is one of the most controversial and least known Presidents. Some historians and most citizens today know him only as a bullheaded, ill-tempered drunkard who narrowly escaped impeachment by a righteous Congress. But some biographers consider him a great man, ranking just ahead of Abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens and...
Then came Lincoln's assassination and President Johnson's battles with a hostile Congress, led by the redoubtable and unscrupulous Thaddeus Stevens (Lionel Barrymore). Johnson seeks to conciliate the South and repair the Union; Stevens to punish the rebels. This part of the film treads on blood-soaked...
With brutal frankness Tennessee Johnson scans the faces of the people's representatives in Congress: mean faces, scheming faces, corrupt, stupid, generous, brave and honest faces-the composite face of democracy. To make such an intangible dramatic and occasionally even tangible is no mean achievement. Director Dieterle's...
Disorder in Bulk. In Chicago. Gus Stevens' wife had him charged with disorderly conduct for coming home with a 520-lb. friend and trying to get in through the window. The friend: a bear.