Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limited Victory. In Moscow, the Russians had agreed to lift the blockade if the Russian mark were accepted as Berlin's only money. The Russians might use their currency as an effective weapon to conquer Berlin in the long run-depending partly on just how the men around the table settled the details. The U.S. had originally demanded that the Big Four "control" the Berlin currency. It was likely, however, that the U.S. would give in on the issue of four-power currency "control," settle for currency "supervision," whatever that might turn out to mean in practice...
...American Federation of Radio Artists). When he refused to pay a $1 assessment in 1944, arguing that it was for political purposes, AFRA forced DeMille from the air. Since a majority of the union membership had approved the assessment, the Supreme Court upheld AFRA. Armed with a new legal weapon-the Taft-Hartley Act Act-DeMille is confidently returning to the fray...
India's main weapon so far has been a tight blockade. Machinery and trucks labeled for Hyderabad have piled up in Bombay. In Hyderabad imported food supplies have dwindled and the price of potatoes has soared to $1 a pound. The airline that connected Hyderabad with Indian cities is suspended. The Nizam's officials admit privately that Hyderabad might not be able to survive another six months...
...overthrow and destruction of the Government ... by force and violence." In addition, each of the twelve was indicted individually for membership in "a society, group and assembly of persons who teach and advocate the overthrow and destruction of the United States by force and violence." The jury's weapon was the eight-year-old Smith Alien Registration Act, originally aimed at fifth-columnist aliens.† Its maximum penalty: ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each indictment...
...faced Resit Merdjan confessed to the crime, the court barreled the case through, carefully refrained from calling the eyewitnesses, and sentenced Merdjan to 25 years. Slight, fair, high-cheekboned Hashmet Orbay, son of the chief of Turkey's general staff, who had been with Merdjan when the murder weapon was bought, was dragged into the case by a slip up. The court sentenced him to one year as an accomplice. Cried Merdjan, when his sentence was read: "I was double-crossed...