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Zangara, lui, fut immédiatement jugé à Miami et son procès donna lieu à d’invraisemblables échanges entre lui et le juge de la Cour. « Toutes mes pensées sont dans mon estomac. Dans mon ventre. C’est là qu’est le mal. Voyez-vous, je souffre tout le temps. Et je souffre parce que mon père m’a envoyé travailler alors que j’étais encore un petit enfan
... See moreJean-Paul Dubois • La Succession (OLIV. LIT.FR) (French Edition)
The Senate was not in disarray. As the Foreign Relations Committee had been its stronghold against the League, against Progressivism the stronghold was the Finance Committee, still dominated by Allison, Aldrich, John Spooner of Wisconsin, and Thomas Platt of New York. The “Senate Four” or the “Big Four,” as they were known, still met in summer at A
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
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Stevenson, Johnson said, had sold his soul for the labor vote; “he’s a yearling with the labor boss brand on his hip.” Johnson’s charge was untrue. Coke Stevenson was not opposed to the Taft-Hartley Act; he was in favor of it. From the time it had first been proposed in Washington, he had explained to supporters, in his slow, painstaking way, that
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
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