Word: generale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the last defendant had been sentenced, lawyers got to their feet to make an impassioned plea for bail pending appeal. Judge Medina rejected their plea, ordered the convicted men jailed in Manhattan's federal detention headquarters until the U.S. Attorney General selected the prison where they would serve their sentences. Handcuffed and flanked by a bevy of U.S. marshals, the eleven Communists were carted off to jail, a former garage, while the long and tortuous process of their appeal began...
...another U.N. birthday party last week, a group of less restrained celebrators commented at length, but scarcely said any more. Just four years after the signing of the San Francisco Charter, the U.N.'s General Assembly met in special open-air session at the site of the new U.N. building at the East River foot of Manhattan's 42nd Street, to watch the cornerstone laid for U.N.'s imposing new headquarters. As President Truman arrived at the 42nd Street site, the combined New York Police, Fire & Sanitation Department bands struck up The Sidewalks of New York, better...
...typist was talking about Yugoslavia's candidacy for a seat on the Security Council, which came up for a vote before U.N.'s General Assembly last week. The U.S. backed Yugoslavia. Russia, dead set against the Titoist rebels, backed Czechoslovakia. The issue that bitterly divided the Eastern bloc also split the Western camp: Britain had chosen to back the Russian candidate...
King Leopold III of the Belgians and his beautiful wife were happily packing their bags last week in their lakeside villa at Pregny, Switzerland, where they have been whiling away their long exile. They were in hopeful spirits. General Emile Bethouart, French High Commissioner in Austria, had invited them for a week of hunting in the Tyrol. After that, there was a chance that they might go on to Brussels. A decision on the King's future was finally at hand...
...Segars Mill in the low country, the Segars clan performed the annual ritual of closing down the grist mill and padlocking the general store. As Clemson folks, they looked askance at other pilgrims making the journey to the state capital at Columbia; there was no telling who might be a Carolina sympathizer. There had been friction between the two factions since the day Pitchfork Ben Tillman, the state's rip-snorting governor of the 1890s, branded the university as a center of snobbery and helped found Clemson, a "heman" agricultural college with a strong emphasis on military training...