Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editor of the Radio MARCH OF TIME. Working with him is a large staff that includes an editor, two directors, three researchers, a full-time Washington correspondent and eight writers. One of these writers is John McNulty, whose short stories you may have read in other magazines-another is Carl Carmer, professor, reporter, magazine editor, who has traveled through every state of the Union gathering material for his famous bestsellers: Stars Fell on Alabama, The Hudson, The Hurricane's Children, Listen for a Lonesome Drum...
...Carl Carmer, best-selling folklorist (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum) went to court with Publishers Farrar & Rinehart to settle a baffling question: How big is a book? Author Carmer claimed that he had fulfilled his Farrar & Rinehart contract with a 40,000-word history of The Submarine Sturgeon, famed for Lieut. Commander William L. Wright's terse description of its baptism in battle: "Sturgeon no longer virgin." The publishers claimed that he still owes them a book because his submarine history was not "full-length." New York Supreme Court Judge Lloyd Church decided...
...Mexico's Senator Carl Hatch asked Waxey about one telephone call which had to do with a black-market deal to sell trucks at 25% above ceiling prices. Waxey parried this, like most questions, with "maybe." Senator Hatch snapped: "You don't say no and you don't say yes. You just don't say anything...
...Kremlin to learn their fate. Without audible comment they sent the terms to Helsinki. Then the Germans, on orders from Berlin, went back on their agreement to evacuate Finland, began to attack. Angrily, the Finns said a state of war existed with Germany, sent Foreign Minister Carl Enckell to Moscow to give the Government's answer. At week's end there was no sure sign whether Russia's terms to Finland would be stiffer, softer or about the same as those granted Rumania...
Trials went on of men suspected of a hand in the July attempt on Hitler's life. Dr. Carl Goerdeler, onetime Oberbürger-meister of Leipzig, and said to be the ringleader, was hanged with six others. One of them was Adam von Trott zu Solz, a Foreign Office man who had spent the summer trying to make Allied contacts in Stockholm. Trott had a plan for overthrowing Hitler, but he wanted assurance that Germans would be rewarded with something better than unconditional surrender. The Nazis talked of trying (and hanging) Hjalmar Schacht, passed sentence of death...