Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans in the legislature held up the inauguration for four hours, threatened to demand a recount of last fall's close election (Bowles won by only 2,285 votes). But the high point of the proceedings was Bowles's rakish appearance in the inaugural parade-he wore a dented grey hat with his cutaway. Said his wife: "Chet has a silk hat somewhere. But he just won't wear...
After Fascism's fall, the horns honked again triumphantly. Jaywalking became an assertion of individual liberty. Then, last year, to show that freedom is not license, the police clamped down...
...Last fall, Moise Lawenda, a Spanish Jew from Poland appeared on the scene. He had been repatriated with 365 other Spanish Jews from a Nazi concentration camp; his entire family of 30 had perished. He met secretly with Ignacio Bauer and one Joseph Cuby, a British Jew from Gibraltar. He persuaded them that the time was ripe to reopen a synagogue in Spain...
...Catholic Argentina this was a sensation; gossip soon whispered that Peron, had asked his good friend Cardinal Copello, as a favor, to get rid of Dunphy. The Cardinal visited Dunphy at his church last fall and suggested-"very suavely," says Father Dunphy-that he ought to resign. Just before Christmas, police held the priest for eight hours while they tried to make him admit authorship of an anonymous pamphlet called "Liberty," "I am in accord with what it says," Dunphy assured them, "but it is not in my style, and I did not write...
Gootenberg said that HLU has asked United World Films whether they would release "Odd Man Out," contracted for last fall. The University Theater management, has protested the showings as competition to both RKO and United World...