Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CONGRATULATIONS . . . JUDGE MEDINA'S CONDUCT OF THE RECENT TRIAL, IN WHICH FORCES WERE PLAINLY AT WORK TO CRAMP AND PARALYZE THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WAS AN ENNOBLING INSPIRATION TO ALL FREE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. IN MARKED CONTRAST WAS THE TRIAL OF JOSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY IN BUDAPEST. IT TOOK THE KREMLIN THREE DAYS TO IMPOSE GUILT ON THIS INNOCENT MAN, AS AGAINST THE 169 DAYS ALLOWED IN JUDGE MEDINA'S COURT TO OVERTHROW THE LEGAL PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE AND IMPOSE GUILT ON GUILTY MEN. JUDGE MEDINA'S . . . COURT GENERALSHIP ... RECALLS TO MIND JUSTICE CARDOZO'S WORDS...
...story of the police reporter who took the picture of the victim of an accident instead of helping her [TIME, Oct. 24] was, to this reader, blood-chilling...
...work in New York might call for a night at the opera, followed by a Greenwich Village jam session. It includes interviews with a composer about forthcoming compositions, listening to the new records and spotting the new in music and the great in musical performances. Last summer he took a trip to the music festivals at Amsterdam and Salzburg...
Chandler Thomas comes by his job quite naturally. His mother was a pianist ; his father was a journalist on the New York World and the Seattle Times. Thomas played trumpet in dance bands around his native Seattle, went to the University of Washington, took up classical music (piano and composition), and became a reporter for the Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. A U.S. Army Air Force pilot during the war, he spent three years as a member of a guerrilla army in the Philippines. As deputy chief of one of the commands, he had 28,000 men under...
President Truman took a long, not so happy look at the budget last week, and reported that the deficit would be a huge $5.5 billion, instead of the mere $873 million he had predicted in January. It was the second biggest in U.S. peacetime history (the biggest: 1940-41's $6 billion...