Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indeedy. In Fort Worth, burglars lifted $2,186 in cash and a 600-lb. steel safe from the Helpy-Selfy Grocery and Market...
...Those Worn-Out Crackpots." Next day, as the special train crossed Ohio and Indiana. Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers (Judge Sam Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood) worked hard to trim the big Chicago speech from 9,000 to 3,000 words. At Fort Wayne, there was an interruption: the President left the train for a specially built platform, standing high over a square where a crowd of 24,000 was gathered. The President, who knew that many wanted to reassure themselves about his health, said: "I am in the middle of a war, and so are you. . . . It is quite...
...iron cot in a flimsy wooden house, something like a run-down American beach cottage, in the town of Tacloban. Several correspondents were staying there. Asahel ("Ace") Bush of the Associated Press and John Terry of the Chicago Daily News were in one room, Stanley Gunn of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Clete Roberts of the Blue Network and I in another, John Dowling of the Chicago Sun in a third...
Early Friday, rebel officers smuggled 70 students and workers into the fortress of the Honor Guard. The officers and "prisoners" killed the commander and took over the fort. Stragglers from Guatemala City's nightclubs were surprised when they saw armed civilians roaring past in jeeps and motorcycle side-cars...
Umbrella Salesman. Easy-mannered Byron Nelson has come a long way since he worked as a clerk for the Fort Worth & Denver City Railroad, practicing golf in the evenings, before the depression knocked him out of a job. In 1932, he made his first professional golf tour and earned exactly $12.50. This year, with his average of 3.85 strokes a hole, he has picked up #39,875 in war-bond prizes, worth $29,906.25 in cash...