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Word: cards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Headed for a New York honeymoon, Mr. & Mrs. David Fromal of Newport News, Va. parked their car in the wrong place in Baltimore, were held up for four days and had their car impounded because Fromal had forgotten the registration card. To make amends, Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro gave them the key to the city, paid their fine, saw that they got their car back. The Baltimore News-Post wined & dined them, gave them theater tickets. The Fromals decided to finish their honeymoon in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Dec. 13, 1948 | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Russians ordered the 26 Red members of the Assembly to the Admiralspalast, and filled out the rump convention with some 3,000 hand-picked delegates from Communist-controlled trade unions, splinter parties, women's and youth's groups. Each delegate was given a white card, to make the voting look impressive when they raised their hands. The leader, proposed that the present "undemocratic, reactionary city administration be dismissed." The white cards fluttered like snow on the wind; the vote in favor was unanimous. A candidate was proposed for mayor, and again the white cards waved. A list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Opera Government | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Employing a worker not in the presence of registered wiremen. Paying insufficient wages . . . Employing a worker not a union member (union card enclosed for completion and return). Employing a worker under 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Freddie the Ferret | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...largest department store and had settled down in a luxurious apartment with his attractive wife and a young daughter. So, when he was called up a few months ago, he devised a plan. He located a former employee, now destitute and suffering from tuberculosis, supplied him witha forged identity card and paid him $1,500 to appear as Michael Chryssicopoulos before an army medical board. The ex-employee was promptly rejected as unfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: One Law for the Rich | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...Jarvis Moody of Dunster House and Morristown, New Jersey: NSA delegate; Boston area purchase card committee; Harvard Square Interfaith Council; president, Free Enterprise Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 24 Men Nominated for '50 Class Committee | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

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