Word: behan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens mined a little, published the weekly Epitaph, lived mostly in the past, lolling against the boarded-up false fronts. A few were guides who showed visitors around the adobe Bird Cage Theater museum (tour: 25^), a combined variety house, saloon, gambling house and brothel, where Sheriff John H. Behan and friends used to sit on the right and Marshal Wyatt Earp (who wanted to be sheriff) and his cohort sat on the left...
...second largest, has drawn up a list of social reforms, and the exiled Government has agreed to many of them. But on one point there is deep disagreement. Belgium's dominant political group, the conservative Catholic Party, is firmly committed to the monarchy. Almost to a man, BeHan Socialists want to be rid of Leopold. They do not mind having a king, but they have had no use for Leopold since his surrender...