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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inspired by the example of the 13 American colonies," they announced, they were forming a union of their two countries. The French press saw the whole deal as a British plot to undermine France's prestige in Africa. The London Daily Express asked just as indignantly: "Is Dr. Nkrumah planning to bring a foreign territory into the British family of nations?" Toure flew home with the promise of $28 million from Nkrumah...
...Doomsday Book," available to the public, that states precisely the amount each taxpayer contributes to the treasury. As a Finance Ministry official put it: "A citizen may notice that one of his neighbors has a rather high standard of living," then, on leafing through the Doomsday Book, he may "express some astonishment at the discrepancy between his outward signs of wealth and the amount of revenue declared." Of course, added the official, there is no intention of turning the French into a nation of informers...
...Depression, Frye merged Standard into Western Air Express, which later merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to, become Transcontinental & Western Air, a pioneering coast-to-coast airline. (T.W.A. billed itself as "The Lindbergh Line," kept Charles Lindbergh on the payroll as an adviser, but dropped the title in 1938 when Lindbergh made isolationist speeches for America First...
...dinner party to the series of court decisions overturning federal convictions in security cases, shook his head, saying: "I don't understand what the court is doing in some of these decisions." For his part Earl Warren could only resent the President's steadfast refusal to express his approval of the court's 1954 school-desegregation decision-although the President sent troops to Little Rock to back...
...London's Sunday Express, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, 84, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, had a heartwarming spiritual reflection. "Stalin was a rough and stern man," mused the Dean. "But God's eye is a big eye and sees everything, good and bad. To know all is to forgive all, so I think that, from heaven's point of view, Stalin is safe." Just out of curiosity, did the Dean see anything amiss in the Soviet encyclopedia's devoting 78 lines to the Red Dean, only eight to Christ? "Well, you see, I'm alive...