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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sparrow's Fall. In Seattle, after nine hours' deliberation, a federal jury decided that George Bohnstedt was guilty of reusing a canceled five-cent stamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...exposing another sort of censorship, Nat S. Finney, 44, Washington correspondent of the Cowles Bros.'s Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Des Moines Register & Tribune, last week won the $500 Raymond Clapper memorial award. Last fall, Finney reported, President Truman had approved a "security code" under which Government employees were forbidden to disclose stories "embarrassing" to Government officials. The code was dumped when Finney led the press howl of protest. At the White House Correspondents' dinner, Finney had the satisfaction of getting his check from President Harry Truman, who had made the bobble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Plug for Leaks | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Both "Gross" and "Lord" concentrated their buying in the field of Applied Science, with a few books in Engineering, Mathematics, and romance languages. In the fall term, "Lord" acquired two slide rules, one of them an expensive circular model, with the forged orders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crook Bilks Book Office Out of $150 | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

Monro said the crook took advantage of extreme confusion in Memorial Hall to get his authorizations last fall, but apparently acquired a stamp some time in February and just by-passed the spring term book lines. Different book cards, with different numbers, were used

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crook Bilks Book Office Out of $150 | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

Referee Tommy Lawson halted the Phil Eisenberg-Charley Bird bout in 1.7 of the first round, declaring Eisenberg, Freshman fullback last fall, now 175-pound champ by a T.K.O...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Boxers Win Four; Tommy Rodgers Keep Title | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

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