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Please go swing your battle ax at some deserving target-there is no shortage...
...made in Washington district court before Federal Judge David A. Pine, a small, stoop-shouldered veteran of the bench. Now 60, Judge Pine once clerked for Wilson's Attorney General James McReynolds, who later became one of the crustiest conservative Justices of the Supreme Court and a target of Franklin Roosevelt's famed failure, the court-packing plan. A lifelong Democrat, elevated to the district court by Roosevelt in 1940, Pine is known for his independent thinking, dry humor, incisive judgments on the law. These qualities were evident last week as he heard steel company and Government lawyers...
...were successful, however, each church organization would have to build a large number of new buildings, which many of them cannot afford. Anyway, this is a dubious way to get at the vast majority of school children, who attend America's public schools, and who are organized religion's target...
...main Taft target was still Harry Truman. When he was handed a press bulletin about Truman's threat to keep Congress in session until it approves the defense budget, Taft snapped: "That only carries out the fact that he seems to have gone completely off his head. Like Charles I of England, apparently he claims he has the right to get any money he asks for. Congress has a definite answer to that. They don't have to come back. They can stay home." When a reporter commented that Truman must be his secret ally, Taft chuckled: "Well...
...batter, narrow-eyed and tightlipped, leaned in toward the plate, and crouched to make a smaller target of his stocky little frame. He wriggled, fidgeted with his cap, hitched up his belt, got his feet dug in, began waggling his bat. Just as the pitcher started his windup, he let down the bat, stepped out of the box and elaborately wiped an imaginary speck out of his eye. The pitcher waited, ball clutched in his throwing hand. With a swagger, the batter walked over to the rosin bag, picked it up, dusted his hands and wiped them on the seat...