Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Shah had set off for a ceremonial visit to Manhattan and a month's visit around the U.S., Harry Truman settled down to routine. A little fat from his long desk-bound summer, he had been roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the...
The State Department was also obliged to deliver a formal protest to the other side in China's war. A U.S. freighter, the Flying Cloud, had been shot at by a destroyer escort while running the Nationalist blockade off the China coast. The protest was bound to be mild...
Hugh Gravitt, a slight, nervous taxicab driver with a record of 22 previous traffic offenses, also testified: "This accident which happened was unavoidable. I see her everytime I go to bed and I said then and I still say I would rather it to have been me than her."
Mostly his enemies in the party remembered Jimmy's attempt to dump Harry Truman in favor of Eisenhower at Philadelphia last year. "We can't very well trust him," groused redheaded Tom Scully, Los Angeles Truman stalwart. "This is a lot different from The Bronx where the name...
Rumor clung to him like filings to a magnet. Wise guys whispered knowingly that he had ordered the Beverly Hills murder of his old friend Bugsy Siegel, the shooting of Los Angeles Hoodlum Mickey Cohen and dozens of other cases of violence. In three months he had been charged with...