Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, Immigration Commissioner Joseph M. Swing insisted that the service has to use force sometimes to get rid of "nogoodniks." Most of the 7,000 aliens the U.S. deports each year are allowed time to pack up and say their farewells, said Swing, but "there is about 3% of these nogoodniks" who keep on stalling in the courts. Leathery West Pointer Swing (classmate: Dwight Eisenhower) vowed to deport Staller Heikkila "if it takes from now until I get kicked...
...expecting a baby in August: "You can tell how important this tournament is to get Bing away from the nest. Bing had his last child 20 years ago. That's quite a coffee break." Comedian Hank Henry came on to peddle Texan Billy Maxwell and tried to swing a deal with one of the more belligerent celebrities in the crowd. "What am I bid for Elsa Maxwell? This would be a good buy for Walter Winchell. How about Elsa, Walter?" But feuding Walter Winchell (see TV & RADIO) had quietly retired to his room, pleading ill health. Highest bidder...
More disturbing than the implied mockery of the courts, and perhaps more frightening than Swing's hip-shooting brand of private justice, has been the attitude of certain officials...
...Swing has maintained a tone of righteous indignation; "When a Jap was captured, did we say 'Go home and kiss your wife good-bye'?" Heikkila will be deported "if it takes from now until I get kicked out." And Representative Walter and his subcommittee, who are investigating the incident, appear more concerned about Swing's tactics as capital for Communist propaganda and adverse publicity for the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, than about the morality of the tactics themselves...
...Immigration Commission attempts to manipulate Heikkila like a puppet have two unattractive aspects. It appears that the judiciary is the only branch of government left with a real concern for individual rights and for due process. And if Swing's spleen and Walter's wrist-slapping are any index of the nation's government, we are in a very bad way indeed...