Word: facto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grounds for the Supreme Court's action were technical: under amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, the Government had tried ex post facto to bring the German-born American to account for political activities. Viereck, author and journalist, was sentenced to prison for two to six years, fined $1,500 and costs. Now his case is remanded to the lower court; he is under indictment on charges of sedition and conspiracy to undermine the morale of the armed forces...
...rationing is an ex post facto job, and one of Jimmy Byrnes's problems is to cure causes of limited production: Farmers are skimping on expensive protein feeds that a cow needs for top yields. Machinery is rationed or nonexistent. Farm wages are too high for many an operator to pay. Laborers are abandoning the seven-day-week grind of cow-tending for easier, better-paid city work. Thus big & little farmers are selling herds: the culls for slaughter, the good cows mostly to neighbors; heifers-next year's cows-are being sold for beef at fantastic prices...
Hollywood wiseacres sometimes call the sonorous roll of an elite society known as the R.K.O. Alumni Association, for R.K.O has let more talent slip through its fingers than it has kept. Examples: David Selznick (now de facto head of United Artists), William Le Baron (now sparking 20th-century Fox), Sam Briskin (who has helped put Columbia into the big money), Joan Fontaine (whom R.K.O. once had for practically nothing a week—as Hollywood salaries go—but had to borrow back last year at $75,000 for Suspicion), Katharine Hepburn, Jack Oakie, ired Astaire, Ginger Rogers...
...fighting strength by the system's operation, inequitable as it may seem. This is cited by Navy brasshats as their side of the story. Another brasshat argument is that just because a man went to Annapolis, or has a friend on the selection board, does not prove ipso facto that he will be a knothead in combat. Another argument is that if the Navy were composed entirely of "original thinkers" it would not last long as a Navy...
...Vatican accepted de facto diplomatic relations with Japan last week, despite U.S. and British protests (TIME, March 23). Tokyo broadcast that Ken Harada, former counselor of the Japanese Embassy in Paris, had been appointed Special Minister to the Vatican and that Archbishop Paolo Marella, Apostolic Delegate to Japan since 1937, would have "full diplomatic privileges...