Word: theron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph Nunan Jr. (income tax evasion), California Deputy Collector Ernest M. Schino and Nevada's BIR Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney (conspiracy to defraud the Government). Two later catches, White House Appointments Secretary Matthew Connelly and Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, were convicted of tax fraud conspiracy, last week won an appeal for a hearing on their demand for a retrial...
Funds for the project will come from the endowments of the Belknap Press, and will be used to print about five or six books a year. Among the works being considered for the first printing are Cotton Mather's Magnalia, Howard Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware, and William Stith's History of Virginia...
...Supreme Court also closed the book on one of the last of the Truman Administration scandals last week: it refused to review the convictions of Matthew J. Connelly, appointments secretary to President Truman, and Theron Lamar ("Sweet Thing") Caudle, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's tax division. They were fined $2,500 and sentenced to two years in prison each for conspiring to fix a tax case during their days in power. Although Connelly and Caudle can ask the Supreme Court to reconsider, their chances are indeed remote...
Young Hunnicutt learns about his father's extramarital reputation the hard way when the girl he loves is kept away from him by her prudish father. Gradually Theron learns or senses nearly everything that has poisoned the lives of his parents, and Home from the Hill becomes a sad record of innocent youth brutally awakened to the fears, hatreds and frustrations of adult life. Novelist Humphrey is honest: the seeds of tragedy having been sown early, the crop is tragic throughout. The Hunnicutt story ends in disaster and violence...
...that to flout them can mean inviting death. Unlike Faulkner, he can unravel fabrics of suspicion, deceit, envy, love and hatred without getting the strands into a seemingly unmanageable snarl. His fine hunting scenes create a nostalgia for a vanishing side of U.S. life, and the crash of Theron Hunnicutt's ideals marks the passing of a Southern code of conduct. A book that a bit too plainly shows the sweat of honest labor, Home from the Hill is still a first novel that begins where most "promising" ones leave...