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Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson will have three top assistants: Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, head of the cloak-&-dagger OSS; U.S. Assistant Attorney General Francis M. Shea; and railway attorney Sidney S. Alderman. They have...
...municipal election, Smith polled 41,000 votes to run third in an eight-candidate field. For a city generally considered a conservative stronghold, this was a remarkable showing. Torontonians also elected two communist aldermen, defeated six others. The socialist CCF failed to elect its five candidates for alderman...
Most of Smith's votes probably came from noncommunist union members and from plain citizens who believed that he would be a smart, efficient official. Smith, no stranger to City Hall, where he served as alderman in 1937, was expected to play down revolution, play up municipal reform...
...long last: "Got married." High Jinks. In Highwood, Ill., Mayor Charles Portilia returned from the Mayo Clinic, found that Acting Mayor Fidel Ghini had fired the police chief, appointed another, allowed gambling at a recreation club and twice fined the club $200 for the privilege. Explained ousted Alderman Ghini: "The money was for a new fire engine." The Strenuous Life. In Detroit...
...latest ideas in landscape gardening. "I don't propose to do much," Sir George would say casually, "just a sheet of water and a line of statues." He also liked practical jokes, if he was not the victim. Once he arranged a collapsible Chippendale chair for a stout alderman, then accidentally sat on it himself. When Osbert laughed, Sir George reproved him sternly: "I might have most seriously injured my back...