Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacLeish's inquisitor was Missouri's lame duck Bennett Champ Clark. MacLeish's offenses were the sins of liberal pamphleteering and rhetorical poetry. In the marble-pillared Senate Caucus Room, he gamely, lamely countered the poking and prodding of his tormentor...
...Rundstedt send Field Marshal von Witzleben, Colonel General Erich Hoepner, Major General Helmuth Stieff, Count Yorck von Wartenburg and the others to the gallows because he had no choice? Did he hope to shield other Wehrmacht generals by acting as the grand inquisitor? When known, the answers to these questions will form an interesting page of history. But they do not alter the fact that the Junker and the Nazis are both very close to the end of their respective ropes. Nor the fact that Germany is now a land divided against itself - although still held together by the frame...
...persisted his inquisitor...
...when "Judge" Smith got his committee hearings under way last December, New Dealers stopped smiling. Wily Mr. Smith, not pretending to be a Bob La Follette or Tom Walsh, had his committee sit mostly as spectators, while a far abler inquisitor, cobra-cold Edmund Toland, dredged from NLRB's messy affairs one damaging fact after another. Infinitely painstaking, Mr. Toland in ten weeks' hearings wove a garish tapestry of the evidence, showed Board bias, incompetence, extra-legal activities...
...that they had been more astute in investments than any other big financial group, grounded the fair conclusion that policyholders had suffered less in depression than bank depositors, brokers' customers, stockholders of investment trusts. Toward the close of the hearing last fortnight, SEC's grey-haired young inquisitor, Gerhard Gesell, showed however, that the record of insurance companies beyond the control of such strict States as New York and Massachusetts had been something less than perfect...