Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace, for instance, declared that the murder was due to "British and American imperialism." Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker suggested that the crime had been committed by British agents provocateurs who had infiltrated the Stern gang and whose task was "plotting assassinations...
...week members of the Stern gang, who haunt the Galina café on Tel Aviv's Herbert Samuel Esplanade, had been telling correspondents that they intended to deal with Count Folke Bernadotte. Posters appeared showing Bernadotte's gaunt figure, his hair flying, being kicked out of Israel by a huge boot. The caption read: "Advice to Agent Bernadotte: Get out of our country...
...killers. Hundreds of suspects were arrested. Ports and airfields throughout the country were closed. Crack troops entered Jerusalem, prowled the city in armored cars, guns ready. They knew little more than that the murderer was "sallow-faced and dark-haired." But they knew a lot about the Stern gang...
Died. Count Folke Bernadotte, 53, United Nations mediator in Palestine; assassinated "presumably by the Stern Gang"; in Jerusalem (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Leche-Long ticket won, but afterward nobody had time for Earl. The gang rushed to the public trough and swilled up wealth with porcine delight. Leche, a fat and jolly man, built himself a mansion on the exclusive St. Tammany "Gold Coast." George Caldwell, an even fatter man, who was construction supervisor for the burgeoning L.S.U. campus, built an even better one-its bathroom boasted 14-karat gold fixtures. Not to be outdone, Abe Shushan, president of the New Orleans Levee Board, built a mansion...