Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in office Fibber Elliott kept his eye on Mrs. Lee and wondered what to do next. True to her campaign promises, the new mayor cleaned out Portland's basketball and hockey-betting hangouts, had her cops round up prostitutes, close Chinese gambling dives. She even sent her police out to pick up all the slot machines, including those in such private hangouts as the Portland Press Club, which made $50,000 profit on them last year...
South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan has carried out a policy of relentless Jim Crow segregation and suppression against both blacks and Indians. Last week in the Union's third largest city, Durban, where some 124,000 of the white masters live dangerously close to native quarters teeming with twice as many blacks and about 110,000 Indians, the smouldering resentment of South Africa's Negroes sprang to flame. Inexplicably, they turned it against the only people more oppressed than themselves...
Applications for American and Canadian students to study this summer in England will close March 1. The Institute of International Education, 2 West 45th st., New York, will accept applications only from residents of the United States. Canadians will have to wait until a Dominion representative is chosen...
...record thus far in the New England League, with one of their wins coming against M.I.T. and two of their losses against Boston University (a team which edged the Crimson 6-4 in the season's opener). B.U. whipped the Huskies 7 to 4 in a close game three weeks ago and 6 to 3 last night...
...Spreads. According to Father George, Russians are cynical about the sincerity of their government's war-inspired toleration of the Russian Orthodox Church. He reports that even some of the Orthodox priests stay underground just in case the state once again begins to close the churches...