Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a federal judge, gave up his $100,000-a-year practice and went to work for $15,000 a year...
...back he went, meticulously making the notes which were a guide to him through all the legal labyrinths of the trial and which, before he was through, filled a two-inch-thick notebook. In the end, the indefatigable man was able to present his long, cool and collected charge to the jury and then catch the lawyers for the defense flat-footed by sentencing them on the very next day. Said he afterward: "They didn't think I'd have the time to prepare the charges against them...
This time was different, Anna Thompson felt. She and her husband went to a white farmhouse near Hickory Corners, Mich, to examine a blond, blue-eyed boy of six. Nobody knew much about Tommy O'Neill who was small and shy. About all the police did know was that he had been handed over to a Mexican couple in Toledo, Ohio about the time of Ronnie's disappearance. Michigan welfare authorities took him from the Mexicans after they moved to Lansing, boarded him at the Hickory Corners farm...
Communist Fiat. This throbbing plea for German friendship was only the beginning; this week Stalin continued to woo Germany by announcing that German P.W.s (of whom an estimated 225,000 are still in Russian camps) would soon start going home. Then Moscow went through the diplomatic farce of "recognizing" its puppet regime and exchanging ministers with it. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson denounced the puppet republic as being "without legal validity or foundation in the popular will . . . created by Communist fiat...
Harmonious Feeling. Lean, long-legged Noel Haviland Field was born in London of an English mother and an American father. In 1920 he came to the U.S. with his German wife Herta, went to Harvard. In the early '30s he worked for the State Department's Western European section. In 1936 he switched to the disarmament section of the League of Nations in Geneva. Herta, it was rumored, did not like...