Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harried Harold. Stassen, starting late, tried to cover too much ground. He was tired before he even began. His organization sagged. So, in the closing days of the grueling campaign, did his speeches. Before the battle was over, he was out on his feet. It was then that he complained of Dewey's expenditures. The Stassen organization itself spent close to $100,000. Then Stassen charged that Dewey and Robert Taft were in a conspiracy to beat him. Said Dewey: "Desperate, irresponsible, eleventh-hour tactics." That was what they were. Stassen swung but he missed...
Beal and 15 other strikers were indicted for first-degree murder. Their trials became famed in the history of U.S. radicalism. The first, at which the prosecution wheeled in a life-size plaster effigy of Chief Aderholt, was declared a mistrial because a juror went insane. At the close of the second, Beal and six others were convicted of second-degree murder. All jumped bail and fled to Russia...
...After the longest run a musical ever had on Broadway (2,202 performances), Oklahoma! will close this week...
...heavy-walled Old City, the fight was at close quarters. Cabled TIME Correspondent Don Burke, who was watching the Arab Legionnaires : "A drumfire from the semiautomatics goes on for long periods against a background of mortars, howitzers and heavier guns, as the Arab Legion works over the Jewish positions outside the Old City. When we arrived, the Jews inside the Old City were confined within an area of about 800 square yards, undergoing a constant pounding but replying constantly with semi-automatic fire. Their main vantage points were two synagogues...
...working their way through the rubble, squads of tough Arabs laid charges close to the walls of Tiferet Israel synagogue. Now Tiferet Israel resembles a Dali-like nightmare with gaping walls and smashed dome. House after house is similarly blown down or crushed in by explosives. But the Jews are still holding on despite their hopeless position. The main thing in the Jews' favor is a labyrinth of underground passages through which they move from house to house...