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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jailed for contempt if they refused to answer proper questions, cut them off sharply when they plunged into shrill attacks on Wall Street, the Ku Klux Klan or the Atlantic pact. "This trial would go on for an indefinite period if I received all the evidence offered every time two Communists talked to each other," he said...
Back home in Waukegan, Sentoria Montgomery did more than hope. She worked part-time as a cook, spent about $7,000 of her own and her brother's money trying to get her husband out of prison. For 24 years she found only frustration; but two years ago she found Luis Kutner, a flashy, wealthy Chicago lawyer...
...minute-long nod to God-or to production in the ball-bearing works-was calculated to give the least offense to the smallest number. Even so, it barely got by. Out of 15 committee members only eight voted for it; the Soviet Union, France and two others abstained; three members had stayed away from the meeting...
...delegates at Strasbourg were all shades, from blond Scandinavians through coffee-colored Turks to the two Senegalese members of the French delegation. Cracked a newsman: "About the only thing they have in common is monogamy...
...plain view of all Europe, Churchill grabbed the lapels of Liberal Lord Layton, whom he backed against Whiteley. "If you rat on me now in spite of our 40 years' friendship," hissed Churchill, "I will never speak to you again." Tory delegates patrolled the corridors, lobbying for Layton. Two Danes asked in French whether this man Layton really deserved their vote, and a British Tory replied suavely: "Ah, mais oui, c'est un brave-he's a good...