Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kent ever been a Communist? He took refuge in the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. So did the other two authors, Richard Owen Boyer, onetime New Yorker writer and avowed Communist, and ex-N.Y.U. Professor Edwin B. Burgum...
Then came the turn of Bloch's co-counsel, New Yorker John Finerty, an old hand at celebrated cases (he argued for Sacco and Vanzetti, aided Tom Mooney). Finerty assailed the judgment against the Rosenbergs as "fraud" arranged by a "crooked" prosecution. Rebuked by the court, he retorted: "If you lift the stay [of the execution], then . . . God save the U.S. and this honorable court...
Nevada has new citizens from other states who do not seem to understand that Biltz knows what is best for them all. One of the noisiest is ex-New Yorker Hank Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun. When gambling ads disappeared from Greenspun's paper, he sued both Senator McCarran and the casino operators for conspiring to put him out of business, and got a fat $86,000 settlement out of court. Tom Mechling is making noises like a man who wants to run for governor of Nevada next year, and he has a core of political strength...
Donald J. Hurley, who drew up the bill for Governor Herter creating a state department of Industry and Commerce. Lombard C. Jones, graphic designer and cartoonist who served as managing editor for the New Yorker and American Mercury. Victor O. Jones, managing editor of the Boston Globe. Sargent Kennedy, Registrar of Harvard College...
...time, it seemed to Transit Radio Inc. like a fine idea. With busloads of hapless passengers as audiences, music-and commercials-could be broadcast in urban buses all over the U.S. The plan was fought by groups of indignant passengers, by newspaper editorials and magazines (notably The New Yorker), all charging that bus broadcasts were an invasion of the bus rider's privacy. Last year the company won a favorable Supreme Court decision and thought its troubles were over. But the bus-riding public and the nation's advertisers combined to overrule the Supreme Court...