Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massive achievement. The pact, and the arms program that went with it (see below) had promised France security. In return, France stilled her fear of a resurgent Germany long enough to listen to the U.S. argument: Europe could not recover while Germany remained a despair-ridden slum (TIME, April 4). Much still remained to be settled (see INTERNATIONAL), but the German agreement was a giant step forward...
...Gaitán fell to the pavement on Bogotá's Carrera Séptima, dead of an assassin's bullets. The death of Liberal Firebrand Gaitán touched off the bloody riots that Colombians now call el bogotanazo. To forestall possible trouble on the April 9 anniversary, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Pérez forbade mass meetings that day. Liberal leaders promptly called the faithful to memorial services on April...
...Thackrey's editorials moved toward the Red line. Instead of being a "liberal democratic" spokesman, the Post was editorially pro-Wallace and anti-Marshall Plan, critical of U.S. policy and sympathetic to Soviet policy. Thackrey spoke at the pro-Soviet Waldorf-Astoria Cultural Conference (TIME, April 4), and printed his own three-column-long speech in the Post...
...week starting Friday, April 15. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...
...Boston Braves, 1948 pennant winners, would lean again on the strong right arm of Johnny Sain (TIME, April 11), the best pitcher to come along since V-J day. In other camps, managers were racking their brains to plug holes in their lineups. The New York Giants had Johnny Mize and some other fence-busters, but Manager Leo Durocher was willing to put a pricetag on Mize or almost anybody else if it would bring him pitching. There seemed to be no eager bidders. No one had any marketable pitchers, and burly old (36) Johnny Mize was a property...