Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prussian immigrants, Charley was brought up in Virginia City, Nev., where his father ran a dry-goods store. It was a brilliant family. His sister Miriam was a successful novelist. His brother Albert became one of the world's great physicists, whose measurements of the speed of light won him the Nobel Prize in 1907, and helped Einstein develop the theory of relativity. Albert once candidly remarked that Charley was the most brilliant of them...
Three weeks ago, the U.S. press headlined the testimony of Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Wedemeyer, whose report on China had been suppressed by Secretary George Marshall, roundly endorsed immediate economic and military aid to the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek (TIME...
Last week the city council met to choose a new mayor from among its own members. There was little doubt that the job would go to a Democrat named Albert D. Cash. Cincinnati had not had a Democratic mayor for 35 years, but Bob Taft's powerful Republican machine had slipped a cog in November. Of nine council seats, it had won only four. The rest had been won by a coalition of Democrats and maverick Republicans, flying the banner of Cincinnati's famed reform organization, the Charter Committee. Charlie Taft had led the Charterites...
...Died. Albert Carl Grzesinski, 68, German democrat, Minister of the Interior (1926-30) for the Weimar Republic; of pneumonia; in Queens, N.Y. In 1931, as Berlin's Police President, he tried to gag Rabble-Rouser Hitler, ordered him deported as an undesirable alien, but Chancellor Heinrich Brüning did not sign the order, and a year later the Nazis hounded Grzesinski out of the country...
...much. "Are you aware," he asked his Tory colleagues, "of the danger of setting a young man down in London with so much money in his pocket?" The House of Commons took a vote and decided that ?40,000 a year was ample for Victoria's Prince Albert...