Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief Justice William H. Taft, and general counsel for the Commerce Department in the Truman Administration, starts with John Marshall's 1807 ruling in the treason trial of Aaron Burr. Called as a witness was Burr's secretary, a Mr. Willie, who was asked if he had understood a cipher message purportedly written by Burr. Willie refused to answer the question, citing the Fifth Amendment and insisting that an answer would tend to incriminate him. After two days of argument on the point, Justice Marshall ruled that Willie must answer. The great jurist's summary...
...much the same sort of plain-speaker as Henry Wriston. He railed against students who shun controversy for fear of losing some future Government clearance ("If silence is the price of Government service, it is too high a price to pay"), and against scholarly stuffiness ("It must clearly be understood that the scholar does not lose dignity by being intelligible"). He is also a relentless crusader against the growing theory on many U.S. campuses that a democratic education must be equated with the accommodation of mediocrity. "It seems to me," he once said, "that the colleges in this country must...
Tammany Boss Richard Croker was a harsh, cold man. But even Croker well understood the function of Tammany Hall, and he could speak of it with eloquence and emotion. "Think," he said, "what New York is and what the people of New York are. One half, more than one half, are of foreign birth . . . They do not speak our language, they do not know our laws, they are the raw material with which we have to build up the state . . . There is no denying the service which Tammany has rendered to the Republic. There is no such organization for taking...
Smiling Front. Harold Talbott left Washington amid a flash of splendor, a flare of ill-temper, and no sign that he yet understood why he was going. Talbott was enraged when he read that Secretary Wilson had told a press conference: "I was very distressed about the whole [Talbott] business. I don't like any part of it . . . I feel I have gotten one year older." Talbott stalked into Wilson's office, crowded with reporters and cameramen focusing on his successor, Don Quarles...
ORGANIZATIONS M.R.A.'s Message Moral Re-Armament is a well-heeled movement for "the advancement ... of personal, social, racial, national and supernatural salvation." M.R.A. people think of themselves as the best ideological defense against Communism. It is possible that many Americans would, if they understood M.R.A., find Communism less nauseating. Currently, 192 delegates and actors from M.R.A. are stumping the capitals of South Asia and the Middle East- in U.S. Air Force transports-with a three-act musical morality play called The Vanishing Island. A summary of M.R.A. s message...