Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A Voice on the Phone. One night last week the telephone rang in Jim Glynn's well-appointed Washington apartment. It was a newspaper photographer asking for his picture. "What' for?" Jim asked. "Maybe you don't know it," said the photographer, "but you've just...
For 2½ years, the fatherly Bureau of Indian Affairs had been trying to coax Oregon's Celilo Indians into abandoning their evil-smelling fishing village, perched on the cliffs above the Columbia River, 95 miles east of Portland. If they would move out, the Government promised, new quarters...
Manning Johnson's testimony struck a sharp blow for the Government in its effort to prove Harry Bridges had lied at his naturalization proceedings in 1945, when he denied he was or ever had been a Communist. When Johnson stepped down, the U.S. trotted out ex-Communist No. 6...
"After you'd been chased by the Government for 15 years, brother, you'd be thin too," cracked Hallinan. That was good for a laugh. But as things stood in the fifth week of trial, the defense did not have much else to laugh about.
For the big chief, it had been quite a lifetime. He had thrived on catastrophe, some of which he had brought about himself, had outlived a dozen comrades, some of whom had died by his order. Despite divisions in his dominions and despite his advancing years, Septuagenarian Joe Stalin was...