Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showing an unsuspected gift for satire, knocked out a column, sent it off to the Alsops. Stewart Alsop thought so much of it that last week he had it framed and hung on the wall. The first half was a parody on the Alsops' country-club-voice-of-doom style and their long battle against ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. The column's title: JOHNSON IS A LIAR BUT ON THE OTHER HAND . . . Wrote Krock...
...House declined to take the doom-criers' word for it. Congress voted to take the chance that everything will continue to be level and safe for a while. The final bill is not written yet. Senate and House conferees will meet this week to iron out the differences in their bills. The Senate's bill gives the President even less power than the House's. The best they will hand Harry Truman in the end will be something of a leaky hose...
...assessed for customs would probably just cancel out the newspaper's "value" the way the government will compute it. For La Nación, which got no specific deadline to pay its $1,250,000 in back duties, the message was an ominous hint of doom...
Later, possibly to keep the fires burning briskly, Pagliacci slyly added that he had also been influenced by his recollection of one of the prophecies of the 16th Century mystic Nostradamus, forecasting a day of doom when "the horses of the Cossacks will drink from the holy water fonts of St. Peter's." To set the record straight, he explained that he has mild anarchist and atheist tendencies, but is strongly antiCommunist...
Died. Colonel General Vasily Vasilie-vich Ulrich, 62, who as presiding judge of the Moscow purge trials in the '305 teamed up with Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky to doom scores of erstwhile comrades, won for himself the tag of "Stalin's Executioner," the reputation of having pronounced more death sentences than any other "jurist" alive; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow...