Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard in front of the house by that tall pine tree-sixty feet high, it is-that the Trumans planted the day the President was born. Folks will be able to see it from highway 160 and from the Missouri Pacific depot both. The depot's just a block away...
...bagged: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who told her that he will recommend postponement of the U.N. General Assembly (now scheduled to meet on Sept. 23 in New York City) "until the end of the year." Mrs. Pepper also asked the Foreign Minister what he considered the chief stumbling block to the Peace Conference. Said Molotov: there are no stumbling blocks...
...year." But she admits a fear of turning 30 without getting married. This spring she passed California's exam for real-estate saleswomen, and this winter will sell for a Beverly Hills firm which specializes in expensive homes with tennis courts and swimming pools. The firm, Lawrence Block, Inc., likes to dazzle prospective buyers with celebrity salesmen like onetime film star Rod La Rocque and Charles Christie, of early-day Christie Comedies' fame. Betz expects to be good...
WASHINGTON--Four prominent Negro spokesmen demanded tonight that the 80th Congress refuse to seat Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo, D., Miss., in January because of his acknowledged membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to block Negro suffrage in the South...
When thrice-married old John B. died in 1906, he left $7 million. But his two playboy sons who became directors of the company were no chips off the old block. John B. Jr.'s biggest contribution to the company was an impulsive gesture which brought the company fame. On a trip to Arizona in 1901, he tossed his well-worn Stetson into Fossil Creek near the great Natural Bridge. Twenty years later the hat had turned into a 40-lb. hunk of limestone, still shaped in the identifiable form of a Stetson. Manhattan's Museum of Natural...