Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week from U. S. citizens who feared the fifth column within their gates. Many a citizen pointed with alarm at U. S. Communists, U. S. Nazis, urged any and all means to combat them before it was too late. Just as loud, and more vocal, were the outraged counter-cries from the Communist Party, meeting in New York City for its national convention. In a report which took him four hours to read, General Secretary Earl Browder praised Soviet Russia as the "only one really neutral Great Power" remaining in the world, the protector of weak nations, the "beaconlight...
Last week, on the window of a shiny, 33-seat restaurant-lunch counter at 330 South Clark Street in the Loop, the name of Raklios appeared again. This time it was followed by two letters that marked the passing of a generation. The sign said "Raklios Jr." Proprietor of the new stand: 22-year-old Hercules John Raklios. His business adviser: old John, who eased up on his bakery rounds on opening day to shake hands with old customers, proudly pasted in his son's window the $5 bill laid down by the first customer, who bought...
...along the sprawling, blazing 500 mile western front--from the sea to Switzerland the French tightened their lines and launched a fierce counter attack...
Tonight's German raid on Le Havre was another in a series of furious attacks and counter-attacks by air. Both sides dropped tons of bombs on each others ports and industrial centers. The highlight, of course, was yesterday's mass German air attack on Paris. The toll in human lives--just beginning to be known--now stands at nearly one thousand casualties--254 killed, 652 wounded--five times the previous figures...
...Five hundred members of the American Association of Scientific Workers-among them University of Chicago's famed Professors Arthur Compton and Anton Carlson-petitioned President Roosevelt to keep the U. S. out of war. To the President promptly went counter-petitions, urging help to the Allies, from Albert Einstein, scientists at Princeton, Harvard and California Tech...