Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Screenwriter in the Ghetto" [July 22], TIME said that I was born "in the ward of a women's prison." My birth certificate shows that I was born at Memorial Hospital in Cheyenne, Wyo., in a room reserved for Negroes...
...told, the Spanish government spent more than $1,000,000 in an effort to get voters out in force to approve the new constitution presented to them three weeks earlier by Francisco Franco. It was a document that looked to ward the day when Franco will no longer be around, and the regime was taking absolutely no chances that it would be turned down. Any and all arguments against it were relentlessly suppressed. What the Franco government wanted was a simple vote of confidence in the wisdom of El Caudillo...
...bribe two of his prospective jurors. Though the judge dismissed the two jurors, that trial eventually ended in a hung jury. Hoffa was next tried on the jury-fixing charge in Chattanooga in 1964. And that time, the Government's star witness was none other than Ed ward Partin, a trusted member of Hoffa's Nashville entourage. The Government had freed Partin from a Louisiana jail in 1962, shielded him from assorted indictments (embezzling, kidnaping, manslaughter), and off he went to Nashville to get the goods on Hoffa...
...Died. Ward Morehouse, 67, drama critic and columnist, whose gently gossipy "Broadway After Dark" appeared for 40 years, first in the New York Sun, then in the World Telegram and Sun, and finally, since 1956, in the 21-paper Newhouse chain, a puckish bon vivant and raconteur who spent his winters holding forth at Manhattan's "21," his summers traveling to faraway places, all the while striving to put his own plays up in lights (Gentlemen of the Press), but with slight success; of pulmonary edema; in Manhattan...
Died. Dr, Harry Frederick Ward, 93, longtime chairman of the ultraliberal American Civil Liberties Union, an eloquent Methodist clergyman who taught Christian Ethics at New York's Union Theological Seminary, while lambasting "profit-seeking capitalism" and heading the A.C.L.U. from 1920 until 1940, when he was forced .out because of his praise of Communism; of heart disease; in Palisades...