Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Manhattan Adlai fared better in a speech before a meeting of New York's Liberal Party, the highly sophisticated audience that Stevenson is most at home with. (Said Adlai: "An exceedingly responsive audience, one of the best.") Here Stevenson let loose with penetrating wit and fine oratorical style, twitted the Republicans for contradictory statements (on neutralism, the meaning of Russia's reduction of its army, the importance of the Suez crisis), came out foursquare for compliance with the Supreme Court decision on segregation...
...investigation of the tax-collecting BIR led inevitably to a probe of the tax-prosecuting U.S. Justice Department. On every television screen was the smiling face of Assistant Attorney General (in charge of tax prosecution) Theron Lamar Caudle, whose barefoot wit kept investigators in convulsions as he blandly described rascality (including his own) in government. Not until this year did Caudle get his comeuppance: along with Matt Connelly he was convicted of tax fraud conspiracy...
...have always liked the gag that was circulated during Truman's Administration, to wit: George Washington couldn't tell a lie, Franklin Roosevelt couldn't tell the truth and Truman couldn't tell the difference. And now, the Democrats have decided to Adalai! Apparently the sly manipulations of Roosevelt, the scandals of the Truman Administration and the horsemeat outrages in Illinois when Stevenson was governor are considered by the Democrats to be of little or no consequence...
...Strada. A bittersweet fable about a half-wit girl and a brutal carnival strongman; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...
...Strode. A bittersweet fable about a half-wit girl and a brutal carnival strongman; with Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina (TIME, July...