Word: albie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Devil into Savior. A more spectacular example of Communist organizing technique is the ancient town of Albi in southwestern France. For centuries the people of Albi have blown fine glassware. To them and their peasant neighbors a year ago a Communist was no more welcome than the Devil himself. But last winter Albi's glass furnaces were cold. The local party unit explained the situation to HQ in Paris. Thorez in person cajoled his Pas-de-Calais miners into producing extra coal for little Albi. It was Tammany Hall with freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany...
Campaigner. Near Newport, Wash., Congressional Candidate Joe Albi buttonholed a friendly farmer for his vote. "Be glad to," said the oldtimer, "only I can't vote in Washington. This here's Idaho...
Died. Marshal Louis Felix Marie Francois Franchet d'Esperey, 86, hero of World War I; near Albi, France. Early in the first Battle of the Marne, he was made commander of the French 5th Army. As commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Balkans in 1918, he moved against the Central Powers from the port of Salonika, drove Bulgaria out of the war and forced the capitulation of Turkey. Aside from Petain he was France's only living Marshal...
...last minute Spokane Club President Joe Albi called off the truck's scheduled tour, said "We know when to stop a joke," and bought $3,000 worth of defense bonds with contributions received...