Word: forli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Breaking Point. In Salem, Mass., Mrs. Lorraine Feys sued for divorce on grounds that her husband threw knives and a flatiron at her, pushed her down a stairway, struck her across the chest with an ironing board, tried to toss her out of a window. In Waukegan, Ill., Mrs...
Undergraduate. In Albany, N.Y., the Franklin Credit School of Roanoke, Va. won a suit against Maurice J. Cleary, sometime student in its correspondence course in the operation of a collection agency, for failure to pay his tuition bill.
Even. In St. Joseph, Mo., when a 17-year-old customer returned to the Townsend and Wall department store to complain that a costly cigarette lighter he had bought was no good, the store retorted that neither was his check (for $124.22).
Both the aims and the recipients of American propaganda in Germany and Austria differ from those in France and Italy, where the State Department is concerned primarily with selling America and American good works in competition with Communists. The problem is far more complex in the occupied countries, where the...
Enormous sums have been appropriated for the task, and anyone working with private information outfits can only be appalled at the extravagance of the operation. The State Department supports Information Centers throughout Germany and Austria, most of which have large libraries of books on American subjects. Periodically they send out...