Word: ewan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glory. The three Davis followers were Anders Clarin, 37, a Swede who had spent the better part of his life in the import-export business until one day he got sick of filling out government forms and went to Paris (i.e., the Flore); Cameron Ewan, 19, who left Christ Church College, Oxford at 16 and put in time as a Liberal Party worker before getting into the world citizenship game; and Ruth Allanbrook, 23, the pretty daughter of a Boston business executive, who was studying art in Paris. The trio had hoped to find excitement in world citizenship; instead, they...
...rescue, decided to picket the prison. But in Belgium picketing is illegal in certain out-of-bounds areas, and the Little Castle was out of bounds, all right. The rescuers, however, found that the law said nothing against demonstrations on canals. Next day, in a rubber dinghy, Ewan set out on the Canal de Charleroi, right next to the prison. Through a megaphone of rolled newspapers, he shouted that Clarin should be freed...
...Ewan stayed on the canal that night, the next day and the next night. He was. wrapped in blankets and rubber sheeting. His voice turned hoarse.The police grinned but did not interfere. Crowds grew bigger & bigger. Ruth stayed on the dock, guarding a supply of apples and cigarettes, and watching Ewan's fitful slumbers...
...third morning, the authorities released Clarin with orders to get out of the country forthwith. Said Ewan as he staggered ashore with a wretched cold: "All feeling has left my legs." Hoarsely he told the crowd: "I return to England to await further orders. You will hear more of us. The world government must...
Amid these signs of deflation, President Truman stubbornly insisted that inflation was still the threat. But most Government economists were talking differently. Dr. Ewan Clague, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, estimated that the cost of living might drop 10% within a year. Outspoken Marriner S. Eccles, Federal Reserve Board member, agreed that the time had come to drop talk of inflation. Said he bluntly: "I believe we have been in a recession for several months. But it will not be too severe nor of long duration...