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...Kansas City the motive for last month's assassination of Mobster Charles Gargotta was made a little clearer: Gargotta had squealed. Hauled before the federal grand jury in February, he had implicated partners and associates in Kansas City's sleazy underworld. After him, gamblers, saloonkeepers, triggermen and politicians had paraded before the jury spilling all-or almost all-they knew. An enraged underworld, apparently, had decided that it must rub out Witness Gargotta, had forthwith shot him down along with his partner, Political Boss Charles Binaggio, in the First District Democratic Club on Truman Road. The grand jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Terrible Lawlessness | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Former technical director George H. Mcaly '49, said last night that Network officials had had a vague idea that the frequency switch would bring this result. "In regular broadcasting," he explained, "a lower frequency brings a greater wave length, usually resulting in clearer reproduction and greater volume at the reception point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Change Improves WHRB Reception | 3/28/1950 | See Source »

...system enables WHRB to broadcast within the power alotted them by the FCC and still have full coverage of the College, with much clearer reception in some areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Change Improves WHRB Reception | 3/28/1950 | See Source »

...charge to a committee should be clearer than is often the case at present. University Hall has said that committee chairmen often come to discuss problems without knowing just what they want to find out--in short they are not clear on just what their job is. Not only could this kind of situation be prevented, but the committee could be given a wider scope for its won discretion, if the charge were quite clear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Examines 7 Aspects of Its Activities | 2/23/1950 | See Source »

Since The Struggle for the World, the West has reluctantly climbed from the misty valley of ineffectual good will to the bleak but clearer plateau of the cold war. But on the new terrain loom the same old dangers of complacency ("We are winning the cold war"), inertia ("Wait for the dust to settle") and false security ("They'll never match our atomic stockpile"). With a combination of cold logic and hot passion that burns like dry ice, Burnham tries hard to arouse the free world to full realism and resolution. Burnham's argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: The War Without a Name | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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