Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was something for Albert ("Yungg Alber") Pierrepoint to ponder, when he joined his uncle Thomas as Britain's second Senior Hangman. He too had all the makings of an expert executioner-his job on "Lord Haw-Haw" had been first rate; but "Yungg Alber" was a ripe 37, had recently been married, and a hangman's income was inadequate. They did not hang many chaps in Britain...
...Truman's Missouri infield hobbling weak grounders, the President's critics were ready to boo almost anyone he sent in. But last week some of them actually found themselves applauding his new Secretary of the Interior, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), huge (237 Ibs.), young (38) Julius Albert Krug, last chairman of the late War Production Board...
...ALBERT ZIFF...
Harold Ickes resigned. In a 3,000-word statement he charged that the President's friends "resented keenly the fact. . . I told the truth." Ominously recalling the scandal of Teapot Dome, he stormed: "This kind of political pressure spiritually wrecked the Republican Party in the days of Secretary [Albert] Fall." He warned "of a cloud, now no bigger than a man's hand, that my . experience sees in the sky"- the cloud of political corruption...
...catalogue calls English A-2a for biographical profiles, memoirs, short stories, news reports, reviews of books, plays or music, editorials, special features." Instructor Albert T. Guerard last week used an old refrain: "this course is too large. People interested in writing news reports, special features, editorials, and reviews has better go out for the Crimson Comp...