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...sister and becomes in the end a kind of trellis for most of the blooms of the Yankee flowering. Emerson, Alcott, Channing, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau and most of the others pop up in this book with the naturalness of neighbors dropping in to borrow a copy of the Boston Transcript. Mrs. Tharp's greatest charm is "that she loves and respects her gallery of famous individualists but is never awed by them. What she has to say about them is closer to kitchen common sense than to scholarly penetration; in this portrait they are seen with their transcendentalism down...
...Tricks. Rugged, bellicose Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, who hasn't been quite so rambunctious since Judge George B. Harris clamped a six months' jail sentence on him early in the trial for contempt, rushed at John Schomaker like a cocky mahout. Pretending to read from a transcript of Schomaker's testimony in a 1939 court hearing, he asked the witness: "Do you remember being asked 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Answer...
...That is very possible," said the flustered witness, "but I don't recall it." During the luncheon recess. Government lawyers looked up the 1939 transcript, found no such testimony. Confronted with the evidence, and lectured by the judge for his conduct. Hallinan insisted, "Anything I can do to show this man is lying I'm entitled to do ... I set out to trick...
...mistake Curley had made as governor and appoint pure politicians to the important post in the government. Curley, indignant as he was, turned the Polish offer down with a very graceful letter in which he cited his duty to the city. An edd sidelight was that the Boston Transcript, anti-Curley as it was, came out strongly for the mayor to accept the Polish job; the editors figured that that was the easiest way to get him out of Boston...
According to a transcript of her speech, the chairman stated that "scarcely have the war drums died down...while peace-loving countries are busily planning, working, and rebuilding their social order, there are those who are plotting further exploitation and oppression. Foremost among them are the banks and trusts--the high financiers, monopolists, imperialists of America...Through the Marshall Plan they dump their produce on the needy peoples of the world...through the guise of being champions of world democracy they dictate the political policies of the participating countries." She went on to cite the example of the Soviet Union...