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10 Sep 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
Clair’s Defeat2: Joint Committee on the Conduct of the Civil War3: Congress Investigates KKK Violence During Reconstruction4: Thomas Walsh and the Teapot Dome Investigation5: Ferdinand Pecora and the 1929 Stock Market Crash6: Harry Truman and the Investigation of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in World War II7: Joe McCarthy’s Oversight Abuses8: Abraham Ribicoff and the Traffic Safety Hearings9: The Watergate Hearings10: Frank Church and the Church Committee11: Representative John… [read post]
14 Dec 2021, 3:01 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Some of the best and most notable works of this sort from the previous century—works like John Hersey’s Hiroshima; Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff; Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer; James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time; Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief; Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, et cetera—are canon at this point. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 5:38 am by Florian Mueller
An international IP-specialized publication that I've mentioned on a variety of more positive occasions was totally off-base with the following headline on June 11: "Germany's automatic injunction regime for patent cases looks set to end"That headline is just as wrong as Dewey Defeats Truman was back in the day. [read post]
25 Jul 2020, 12:17 pm by Josh Blackman
In 1953, the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed Justice Tom Clark to testify about decisions he had made as attorney general. [read post]
7 Jun 2020, 6:56 am
" The names Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe come up.AND: Here's a piece written by John Woodrow Cox solo — in WaPo 3 days ago — "‘I’m black before I’m anything else’: A police officer’s passionate exchange with protesters. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 6:39 am by Henry Gao
” “To paraphrase Harry Truman, for the rules of the World Trade Organization, the buck stops with us. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 12:56 pm by Sara Amundson
Tom Steyer Tom Steyer has made climate change the cornerstone of his philanthropic work and his political career. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 6:13 am by Sara Amundson
Tom Steyer Tom Steyer has made climate change the cornerstone of his philanthropic work and his political career. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 6:13 am by Sara Amundson
Tom Steyer Tom Steyer has made climate change the cornerstone of his philanthropic work and his political career. [read post]
14 May 2019, 7:29 am by Andrew Hamm
Truman named cabinet officials and friends from his Senate days. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 2:18 pm by Stephen Honig
  Dewey & Lebouef, the result of a merger of two large firms with one tracing its roots back to Governor Tom Dewey (famously defeated by Truman in ’48), expanded quickly and borrowed $150,000,000 by issuing its debt under a private bond placement and pursuant to a private placement memorandum which inaccurately described the firm’s finances. [read post]
3 Nov 2017, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
When Truman’s political ally, Tom Pendergrast, was convicted of tax evasion in 1939, few people thought Truman stood a chance of getting re-elected in Missouri. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 5:00 am by Jamie Baker
David Bowie’s top must-read books The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (2008) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (2007) The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard (2007) Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage (2007) Fingersmith, Sarah Waters (2002) The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens (2001) Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler (1997) A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes (1997) The… [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 12:30 pm
  A senator from Kansas introduced the petition into the Congressional record and Attorney General Tom C. [read post]
13 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm by Ronald D. Rotunda
Or, assume that Harry Truman ordered Hoover to stop investigating Ernest Hemingway. [read post]
8 May 2017, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast was turned down by four other possible candidates in 1934 when he sought a candidate to support for a U.S. [read post]