Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They do not have, and do not expect to have, a voice in union business, which is run by the labor bosses' hand-picked agents. A few, like the driver in Pittsburgh, will blurt out "Hang the son of a bitch." But a more common reaction is that of the Boston milkwagon driver who said: "The court didn't find him guilty [of bribery]. For my dough he's a go-through guy." More ominous and often just beneath the surface was the reaction of a Philadelphia truck driver when asked what he thought of Hoffa...
...James Oliver Eastland. and the House Judiciary Committee, starring Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis E. ("Tad") Walter, co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. handed the President and the U.S. their answer. Its net: the U.S.'s prestige and the U.S.'s good faith could go hang...
...last week about a gratuitous insult that rose out of a scrap among young Syrian army leftists, who currently wield power but do not have responsibility in Syria. They appear so unanimously bent on turning their country into the Middle East's first Soviet satellite that to hang a big lie on the U.S. is to score a point or two in the infighting. The army intelligence crowd, led by the mysterious left-winger, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, 31, put out the plot story in an apparent effort to eliminate any opposition to the big, impoverishing arms commitment that...
...like many another ancestral seat, seemed destined to be broken up to pay death duties. In 1950 the tenth duke died, only twelve years after his father's death had compelled him to sell off land in eight English counties and in Ireland to meet inheritance taxes. To hang on to Chatsworth, the tenth duke negotiated a contract with his wife and the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry to take over $5,200,000 worth of the estate, thus exempting that much from death duties. But by law such gifts must be made at least five years before...
Rather than "hang around for the bitter end," Sandhurst-bred Major Powell, 49, quit after 28 years in the army. He went to work for a Suez Canal contractor, had been jobless since the British invasion when he wrote a letter to Box F-1794 the Times, in answer to a classified ad for an advertising salesman. Wrote Powell: "I can ride a show jumper or fight a duel. I can swim a river, kick a cad where it hurts-or play chess with a debutante. I once shot a bandit in Sumatra. I could do anything from baby sitting...