Word: truman
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...former silver mine laborer and longtime University of Utah law professor, Ritter was appointed to the bench by President Truman in 1949. As a non-Mormon liberal, he was bitterly opposed for what was then the sole Utah federal trial judgeship in an acrimonious confirmation fight punctuated by charges of personal immorality and corruption. Ever since Territorial Justice James McKean hauled in Polygamist Brigham Young on adultery charges in 1871, federal judges have traditionally warred with the Utah Establishment; Ritter proved to be particularly contrary, and the only substantial victory against him?installation in 1954 of a second Utah federal...
...This month President Carter commuted the 25-to-75-year sentence of Andrés Figueroa Cordero, 52, one of the four terrorists who raided the House, because he is dying of cancer. The three others remain in prison, as does Oscar Collazo, who took part in the Truman attack...
DIED. Laurence E. Bunker, 75, former chief aide to General Douglas MacArthur; of cancer; in Boston. Bunker retired from the Army in 1952, following Truman's dismissal of the five-star general from his Korean command. During the '50s, Bunker became a member of the national council of the John Birch Society...
True. Not the least remarkable aspect of Crosby's career was that once it waxed big in the early 1930s, it never waned. He aroused unusual affection in his public. Bing outstripped both General Dwight Eisenhower and President Harry Truman in one popularity poll of the late 1940s. Any one of a variety of casual nicknames-Der Bingle, Old Dad, the Groaner-was enough to identify him in a newspaper headline. In a cartoon his image could be evoked with merely a nonchalant tilted smile, or by one of the pipes or hats or gaudy sports shirts he affected...
...commercial and a readiness to pursue his art within the constraining framework of a depressing narrative. In taking on a character like Theresa Dunn as the focal point of his film, Brooks has confirmed an affinity for the dark underside of the individual initially suggested by his adaptation of Truman Capote's book on the massacre of a Kansas farm family. Such subject matter arouses doubts as to the director's artistic aspirations...