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After she had been excused, Chairman Wood said gallantly: "Why cite her for contempt? After all, she's a woman . . ." And, as the record showed, a skilled playwright and a great meeting-goer...
Fair Deal trustbusters, who have sued to force Pierre, Irénée and Lammot du Pont to give up their control of General Motors, last week asked Chicago's federal court to lengthen the list of defendants. The Government wanted to cite 183 additional members of the Du Pont family in the alleged antitrust conspiracy dating back to 1914. In Wilmington, Del., Lammot du Pont, noting that 96 of the defendants are under 21 years of age and 61 of them under 14, cited, as the prize new defendant, Irénée's granddaughter...
...sign of the MacArthur sentiment has been observed again & again: speech-making Republicans need only to mention the general's name, or to cite his stand on the Korean war, and the audience applause bursts out. One Congressman, after a recent tour of eight states, reported that everywhere MacArthur's name brought down the house. Another, an active Ike-man, observed: "MacArthur's reservoir of strength is enormous, far more than anybody in Washington can imagine." At a rally in Illinois, an applause meter registered most sharply when Candidate Harold Stassen promised that his first...
...suppose that my main objection is that the food for thought has been so carefully sweetened for swallowing whole that the readers themselves digest very little. There is little stimulation for careful analysis or deeper inquiry. As indicative of this condition I cite the fact that to many students, "research for speech material" is synonymous with thumbing through the current edition of the Digest. Worse, they reproduce the chosen article . . . orally, right down to the last pastel adjective...
...court of appeals. They felt that federal judges should not accept administrative jobs without resigning from the bench. More important, Murphy had found out that he would not get the tools he needed for a thorough stable-cleaning; he was to get no powers to subpoena witnesses, or to cite them for contempt if they proved balky. The job had been offered as a pail-and-broom detail, but what Tom Murphy needed was a bulldozer...