Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To the Gettysburg White House went a petition urging the release of the 16 second-string U.S. Communists now behind bars for Smith Act violations. The signers: Eleanor Roosevelt, Socialist Party Patriarch Norman Thomas, News Commentator Elmer Davis, plus 43 other citizens, about half of them Protestant divines. A "Christmas...
Last week's population, smaller than usual because of pre-Christmas discharges, included 18 women, 13 of them housewives, as well as a stenographer, a telephone supervisor, a clerk, an artist and one unemployed; among the eight men were two mechanics, a cleaner, a hairdresser, a steel inspector and...
¶ Unable to advertise spot items, used-car dealers reported a steep drop in business. Christmas trade was brisk in retail shops, but many stores fell below last year's figures or barely matched them.
¶ Brown University received a Christmas windfall last week of 350 acres of Mount Hope, in Bristol, R.I., from Mrs. Rudolf F. Haffenreffer and her sons Rudolf III and Carl W. (Narragansett Brewing Co.). Included is a museum containing one of the nation's largest collections of American Indian...
¶ In Thompsonville, Conn., the parents of Seventh Grader Shirley Richardson vowed to continue fighting to establish their right to decide what their daughter should wear to school. For the five weeks before Christmas vacation, Shirley was forced to sit in a classroom by herself, because Principal Ernest K. White...