Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People v. the Interests. The train hurtled across Pennsylvania, pausing at Pittsburgh. At Crestline, Ohio, the President told 1,500 railway workers and families that he was "saddened and shocked" by the death of Count Bernadotte. The train slid into the Englewood yards where a herd of Chicago politicians climbed aboard. It was 3 a.m. Cook County Commissioner Arthur X. Elrod boomed disappointedly: "The big wheel's asleep." But Mr. Truman got out of bed for a chat with Cook County Boss Jake Arvey. Then the train rolled on into Iowa...
...mother, who took the news with outward calm; she had feared for weeks that her husband would be killed. Quietly she went to call her elder son, who was away at school. Soon the whole family assembled. King Gustav heard of his nephew's death as he was returning from his summer vacation; the old King wept. In Paris, U.N. delegates heard the news as they were getting ready for this week's General Assembly...
This week the U.N. published Bernadotte's recommendations for a peace settlement which he had completed just before his death. The gist: Galilee was to go to the Jews, the Negeb desert was to go to the Arabs, Jerusalem was to be placed under U.N. control...
Four months ago, after a squabble with his imperious boss, he had left the paper, but had stayed on as her personal fiscal adviser until shortly before her death. Then, six weeks ago, he had learned that a codicil to Cissie Patterson's will had cut him out of a million-dollar share in the Times-Herald when she left it to seven other company officials (TIME...
...death set off a chain reaction, and a furious tug of war between claimants to the $16,500,000 Patterson estate. When the news reached Washington over the A.P., Times-Herald executives moved fast. The seven who had inherited the paper already faced a fight for it; Countess Felicia Gizycka, Mrs. Patterson's daughter, was contesting the will, charging that it had been obtained by "fraud and deceit" as Cissie Patterson was not of "sound mind" when she drafted it. (There was also talk that the seven heirs were already fighting among themselves, too.) And Porter's personal...