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Since Congress put the pressure on it to boot out Communists, the State Department had filtered 3,000 of its employes through its litmus papers for traces of red. Results by last week: 40 men and women had been fired for having what State called "close connections or involvements with foreign governments...
Kickback. In Chicago, Leo Zientek, eviction bailiff for 20 years, received a court order to boot himself out of his own apartment...
...Mary Bethune knows how to make other people work. She likes to recall that her mother, an emancipated slave, bossed a family of 17 and pulled the purse-strings to boot. In West Africa, Mary's ancestors come from a matriarchal tribe where the women led their men around by the nose. She looks over a job or problem, then commands: "This and this need to be done. You do it." People seem...
...Angelo Rossi; Lapham did not reappoint him. More recently Budde had tried to start a "Dimes for Manila" drive; Lapham had declined to push it. Perky Mr. Budde reacted with the fury of a pinto with a burr under its tail. He circulated a petition for a vote to boot out such a graceless officeholder...
...battleships Nevada and Arkansas, and the less-proud Japanese relic Nagatoa, all with blackened paint, twisted upper works, and assorted injuries. Most remarkable, perhaps, was a three-foot dent in the armored afterdeck of the Nevada, as though a cosmic giant had set his boot there...