Word: alterations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...case could not alter the fact that lie detectors may sometimes lie,* but that was all right with Mr. Goldman. Mrs. Hancock, an employe of Brooklyn State Hospital, had charged that he broke into her room and tried to rape her. A jury convicted him. But when the lie detector supported his story that he was no stranger to Mrs. Hancock's favors, Judge Samuel Leibowitz went hunting for corroborative evidence. Result: several other men friends of Mrs. Hancock (besides her husband) turned up. She finally admitted that she had met Goldman before. Last week the District Attorney waved...
...British dilem ma did not hinder the Russians or alter their developing plan. Alexander Korneichuk, new Foreign Commissar of the Soviet Ukraine (TIME, Feb. 14), may handle the Polish-border question. His wife, Wanda Wasilewska, is head of the Union of Polish Patriots. Moscow radio an nounced that her first move had been to form the Polish national council, include in it members of the "Polish Peasant, Socialist and Workers" parties and "other democratic national groupings." The Poles in London were in grave danger of being dispossessed by connubial diplomacy...
...Soviet Union's money, the question of the Baltic States is closed. Historically, and by their own choice-in the Russian view-Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are parts of the Soviet Union. Dissent elsewhere, intrigues by Baltic emigres, "Polish imperialists" and propaganda by Hitler will not alter this stand...
...kidney of South America." This week she underwent a minor operation: a pre-dawn revolution staged by Army and Nationalist groups. President Enrique Penaranda was deposed, and a junta led by bespectacled Professor Victor Paz Estenssoro took over. "The new government," said Professor Paz quickly, "in no case will alter the position [of Bolivia] on the side of the United Nations...
...Archbishops Edward Mooney of Detroit, Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Francis J. Spellman of New York, John T. McNicholas of Cincinnati, Joseph F. Rummel of New Orleans and John J. Mitty of San Francisco; Bishops John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, John Mark Gannon of Erie, Karl J. Alter of Toledo and John A. Duffy of Buffalo...