Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the Scenes. As counsel for the Chelf Committee, Mitchell set out to do a major cleanup job on the Justice Department, but failed to make some of his cases stick. When the investigation began to fizzle, he used his authority as committee counsel (plus his friendship with Cardinal Stritch and Stevenson) as an effective political gun stuck into Attorney General McGranery's ribs. In this way, Mitchell has taken a hand in the running of the department, pushed through certain appointments. His behind-the-scenes operation raised the level of the department and protected his party; whether this...
...reux Ruest, 54, was the man who manufactured the time bomb that exploded and killed 23 people (including President E. T. Stannard of Kennecott Copper Corp. and two other Americans) on a Quebec Airways plane in September 1949. A watchmaker, Ruest made the bomb with a stick of dynamite and the mechanism of an alarm clock for his friend Albert Guay, in return for a $10 ring. Guay wanted to kill his wife, who was on the plane, not only because he had a mistress whom he preferred, but also to collect a $10,000 insurance policy...
...Legend relates that two 16th century burghers of Worms were once arguing about the permanence of the new Protestant religion. One contended that Protestantism would soon die. The other, enraged, thrust his walking stick into the ground, shouting, "As certainly as this stick shall take root and grow into a tree, so also will Luther's faith remain." The stick, the story goes, grew into the 120-ft. Luther...
What is truth in the news? Many a newsman puts his answer in a handy formula : stick to the facts of speech, happening or pressagent's handout, let the reader supply his own background information on the story (if he has any) and call it "objective journalism." This week in the Atlantic Monthly, ABC Network Commentator Elmer Davis, wartime boss of the OWI and a first-rate newshand himself, takes the formula apart. "Truth has three dimensions," says Davis, yet the "practices of the American news business-practices adopted in a praiseworthy ambition to be objective-too often give...
...rates (TIME, June 4, 1951 et seq.). However, many a manufacturer with overloaded inventories has found that the only way to lure customers in was to let retailers cut prices. While consumer items remain so plentiful, Fair Traders may have a tough time making the new law stick...