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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind. He will soon resign from the court. "I must either leave the court or abandon writing," explained he. "And I feel the latter course a psychological impossibility [for] a writer who finds himself increasingly immersed in characters taking shape in his mind." To critics of his decision (notably Republican legislators in Lansing) the judge countered with a blunt opinion: "While other lawyers may write my opinions, they can scarcely write my books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...there is no more honorable ambition one can entertain than a career in elective offices," McCormack told the Young Democrats. "And although I am a great believer in the two-party system," he continued, "I feel that the Republican Party is the party of status quo; the Democrats represent progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Majority Leader Speaks On Politics to HYDC Members | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

McCormack, "more or less talking philosophically," charged that the policies of the Republican Party are made by men behind the scenes who do not run for election. Attacking Madison Avenue, the Republican press, and the "broken promises of the present Administration," he asserted that the great majority of Republicans in the halls of Congress oppose progressive legislation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Majority Leader Speaks On Politics to HYDC Members | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart junketed into the Dominican Republic, paid "great tribute" to Dictator Rafael Trujillo for his "fight against Communism." Then he told Ciudad Trujillo businessmen about an experience of his as a freshman Senator. Tangling jovially with the late Alben Berkley in a private joust, Capehart twitted the then Democratic Senator from Kentucky: "If it hadn't been for the Ohio River, there wouldn't be any Kentucky. It would all have been Indiana." Confidentially responded future Veep Barkley: "Yes, and if that were true, I would have been the Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Repeatedly, the Guild attempted to organize the Tribune, repeatedly it failed. But last week, trying once more to move to Oakland, the union found strength in a new source: staff discontent with the regime of the Tribune's assistant publisher. William Fife Knowland, 51, sometime (1953-58) Republican leader of the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Another Election | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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