Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequently voted with the court's "liberal wing"-Brandeis, Cardozo and Stone. New Dealers castigated him for rejecting NRA, but all the other justices rejected it too. He voted for many New Deal measures, including the Wagner Act. His attitude was that if a social revolution was being legislated, it should be legislated in an orderly, constitutional...
...running mate. If the Republicans won, the Vice President would have something more to do than just preside over the Senate. Exactly what Warren had in mind (and what Dewey may have promised him) came out last week. A biography of Warren by Author (Lust for Life) Irving Stone describes the plan...
Chairman Vishinsky was unmoved. He apologized for his earlier longwindedness, smiled: "I sinned, but who will cast the last stone?" Then he put the treaty to a vote, clause by clause. In 23 minutes, he whipped his boys (and Mme. Pauker) through the required 58 votes. Once, one of his stooges forgot to raise his hand; Vishinsky nudged him: "Hey, pay attention." Fifty-seven times, as he voted "abstention," Cannon's arm shot up like a railroad signal gone wild; the 58th time (when the draft as a whole was put to the vote) he voted...
...Moon. Following army spearheads the next day, the observation group visited Markos' former capital, Aetomilitsa, a typical mountain village of about 100 grey, slate-roofed stone houses nestling against the peak of Mavri Petra (Black Stone). So hasty was Markos' retreat that he left over 2,000 pounds of bread in the village ovens. All the houses in Aetomilitsa had Communist slogans painted in red. The wall of the lecture hall in the largest building, the military academy, bore the slogans, "Men Are Judged by Their Deeds" and, just below, "Long Live Markos...
Even his enemies admit that he tells the news. Most Hoiles readers have little choice, anyway: six of his seven papers are monopolies. Hoiles has survived two dynamitings, four strikes, and floods of counter-denunciation. Sample (from a Colorado Springs pastor): "They say Hoiles has a Stone-Age philosophy. That is an injustice to the Stone...