Word: duggan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fiddlesticks. In Brisbane, Australia, Minister for Transport J. E. Duggan announced the results of a survey: only 2% of Australian longshoremen swear, while 29.8% of Members of Parliament use cuss words...
These two instances are only the most recent examples of biased "reporting." Almost the whole press coverage of the un-American Activities Committee was slanted from the first whack of Parnell Thomas' gavel. The burst of front-page copy which followed Lawrence Duggan's death and the one-sided stories of the slander thrown at Dr. Edward U. Condon by the Thomas Committee have been mere items in the "crusade...
...death was still unexplained. At week's end the New York police department made public the result of its special investigation: "Mr. Duggan either accidentally fell or jumped...
Early Sunday morning, three days after he attended Laurence Duggan's funeral (see cut), Sumner Welles was found unconscious and nearly frozen to death in a bleak field near his Maryland estate, about a mile south of Washington's city limits...
...employer that night. It was not unusual for Welles to take late walks; he had insomnia. His doctor said that he had been troubled with heart disease ever since he had had a heart attack 18 years ago. Lately he had been deeply upset by the death of Laurence Duggan, who had been his protégé and a close friend...