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...Viereck's trial. Said Stone: "In his closing remarks to the jury he (William Power Maloney, Special Assistant to the Attorney General) indulged in an appeal wholly irrelevant to any facts or issues in the case, the purpose and effect of which could only have been to arouse passion and prejudice. The United States Attorney . . . is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer. . . . But while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones...
...Diamond is one of the brightest legends in the legend-studded Marine Corps. Accuracy is his passion. He likes to talk about a baseball game at Tientsin in 1934, when a Marine batter hit a line drive that killed a sparrow in flight. In this accident he sees a higher goal for precision marksmen. His other passions are beer, which he guzzles by the case when it is available, and Marine recruits. Youngsters in the Marine Corps fear the grey-maned giant as much as they respect...
...rubs in the problem is that most of these improvements are the developments and properties of the U.S. Driven by war's necessities, the U.S. has developed its passion for big aircraft (beginning with bombers) beyond airmen's most purple dreams. Cast by war as operator of its longest supply routes, the U.S. has literally been driven into the world transport business...
Senator and Passion. The Postwar brought Yeats honors: membership in the first Senate of the Irish Free State; and the Nobel Prize. As a Senator Yeats shunned the politterateurs for the men of practical affairs. He was proud of two bullet holes in his window which were a by-product of civil war; he turned an argument over divorce laws into the speech of hi. life, a "passionate protest ... on behalf of that small Protestant band which had so often proved itself the chivalry of Ireland." He was beginning to write, meanwhile, those "endeavors in cold passion" (the "Tower" period...
...education: "I am a great believer in the vital importance for character building of that which comes from training in old-fashioned obedience. . . . The farther we move toward the Golden Age in which the people shall rule, the more vital becomes the necessity that the people shall obey." His passion for civic as well as scholastic discipline won him undeserved notoriety as a prohibitionist. Sighed he: "Although I was never a prohibitionist, I rarely succeeded in making anybody believe there was a distinction between a prohibitionist and a law-enforcement...