Word: williams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aimed eloquent oratorical guns at critics who "attack our policy as too rigid and inflexible," and those who sneer at a U.S. foreign policy based on moral principles. Before he had taken his seat, he had crossed swords with such eminent senior Democratic defenders of flexibility as Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Montana's Mike Mansfield, assistant majority leader. And he had provoked top-drawer praise from foreign-policy specialists on both sides of the aisle...
Plates of Gold. The daughter of Colonel William Boyce Thompson, who had built his fortune in South African diamonds and Montana copper, Montana-born Maggie Biddle had shared an estate estimated at $85 million on his death in 1930. She divorced a New York banker the following year and married Philadelphia Socialite Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the dashing soldier who subsequently became U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland (and is now adjutant general of the state of Pennsylvania). They, too, were divorced after the war, but still fond of the diplomatic high life, Maggie Biddle set up a Paris...
...American Civil Liberties Union backed the suit, and Attorney William Butler, presenting the property owners' objections in court, contended that the prayer violates principles set down in the ist and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. The A.C.L.U. took the case, he said, because even though the prayer is nondenominational, it is "offensive" to some parents. Orthodox Jews, he noted, customarily pray in Hebrew and with their heads covered...
...Herricks prayer took a long time reaching the courts. It was approved by the New York State board of regents in 1951, and has since been used by several other New York school districts. Herricks schools began the daily custom last fall. Said School Board President William Vitale: "I can only conclude that this suit is a premeditated act to undermine the American heritage. This is not a religious issue. It's simply a matter of giving our children additional moral and spiritual help and recognition of God." Added Daiker: "The Supreme Court itself starts each day with...
...slums to become a rich and famed Jazz Age bootlegger, peer and sometime friend of the best names in the blue book of U.S. crime: Dutch Schultz. Louis (Lepke) Buchalter. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Al Capone. In 1951 New York City's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer linked him with the Brooklyn syndicate, Murder Inc. The US. Government indicted him in 1954 for income tax evasion. But Longie was no rap-rack (six months behind bars in his life): he lived in the white space around the letter of the law. Married...