Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dennis' refusal to talk had been expected-among the few available substantiated facts on him were these: he had been born Francis Waldron in Seattle in 1904 or 1905 and had a part in the 1941 Allis-Chalmers strike in Milwaukee. Starting with these scanty clues, Chicago Bureau Chief Hugh Moffett and Correspondent Ben Williamson set out, respectively, for Milwaukee and Seattle. Almost at once they began to turn up leads...
...Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce at EGA he picked lively, earnest...
Sneering, he went on scourging the lawless, demonstrated his contempt for Harlan County's rulers by roughing up Sheriff Jim Cawood's son, throwing him in jail and accusing him of being drunk during a football game. One of his deputies quit, became chief of police at Evarts (TIME, Dec. 27), was promptly killed. Five other Evarts police chiefs quit or were arrested. Metcalfe paid no mind...
...city of Bay St. Louis, Miss, bought its first police car. It got the money by levying a fee of $5 each per month on 120 illegally operating slot machines. Said Police Chief Francis T. Hobbs: "The purchase of the car will greatly aid us in enforcing...
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29--(APE)--One of the stormiest legal disputes in year threatened to tear the Supreme Court apart tonight as Justice Felix Frankfurter, former southpaw mound ace, threatened to resign from the nation's highest tribunal in protest of Chief Justice Vinson's ruling Thursday that Lionel "The Toy" Train was unconstitutional and could not play in yesterday's classic, won by the Crimson...