Word: escutcheon
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...Wisconsin Senator's conduct "must be condemned," said Stennis. He called McCarthy's handmaiden speech "a continuation of the slush and slime." It was, he said, "another spot on the escutcheon of the Senate, another splash and splatter." Many more words would be uttered before the debate ended, but quiet John Stennis focused the issue clearly when he said that unless the Senate cen sures McCarthy "something big and fine will have gone from this chamber . . . something wrong will have entered and been accepted...
...Valley Forge, the answer must be no ... For Americans of the Valley Forge heritage . . . it would seem to me that the promulgation of the current truce terms without so much as consulting the most valiant contenders for world freedom in the world today is a blot on the escutcheon of moral America from which it indeed may never recover...
Besides the salt, High Table has slowly acquired several other gifts. Coolidge also donated a gold plate with the escutcheon of the House on it. The designer of the House--a different Coolidge--gave the candelabra, while Baliol College in Oxford contributed a silver plate...
...week Admiral Hiraide and 451 others, put on a war-criminal purge list in 1946 by General Douglas MacArthur, were de-purged by the Japanese government. Admiral Hiraide died in 1948, but his de-purging is more than a posthumous attempt to blot out the stain on the family escutcheon. Under the original stiff occupation rules, purged men and their direct descendants down to the third generation were to be barred from taking any part in politics. Still on the purge list: 11,800 Japanese, including 5,000 dead...
...federal grand jury sitting in Washington finally got around to the man who added the mink coat couchant to the escutcheon of the Truman Administration. Indicted for perjury last week was owlish E. Merl Young, an old Missouri friend of Harry Truman, and a former RFC examiner who became a $60,000-a-year influence peddler in Washington. Indicted with him: Joseph Hirsch Rosenbaum, the lawyer who gave Mrs. Lauretta Young her famed $9,450 "natural royal pastel" mink, and two others accused of swinging their weight around the scandal-ridden RFC. Young and the others lied, said the jury...