Word: fists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That'll Teach You. In Phoenix, Ariz., Motorist Victor Nunez crashed into Mrs. Franklin Daley, blamed his car, lacerated his fist by angrily punching in its windshield and side window...
...Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris. For the time being, the Populists, despite the presence in their ranks of some extremist reactionary elements, moved warily; thousands of Greeks who had turned against the Left because of EAM terror last year might swing back if the Right disclosed a mailed fist. As Premier of a small coalition Cabinet (Right and Center) they chose Panayotis Poulitsas, an amiable nonpartisan...
Murray's fist trembled aloft. "I'm chairman of this committee and I want you to subside. If you don't shut up I'll get these officers in here to have you thrown...
...atmosphere of tension and hysteria Reuther at last went to Convention Hall to hear the decision. With sideline fist fights, near-riots, shouts of "quack, quack" (the auto workers' way of saluting Communist colleagues), with threats and pleas for order from the chair-and with most of the 60 lady delegates voting for Reuther-labor's most democratic union elected its leader. Reuther squeaked in by a hair (4,444 to 4,320). R. J. Thomas wept and stumbled off the stage...
Died. Carlton Cole Magee, 73, Albuquerque Journal editor who blew the top off Teapot Dome with editorial dynamite, and in a quieter moment invented the parking meter; in Oklahoma City. Jailroaded (for libel) by political casualties of the explosion, Firebrand Magee was promptly pardoned, got in an impromptu fist-and-gunfight with the judge who sent him up, accidentally killed a bystander, but beat the homicide...